Keywords
Architecture
Tea Houses
Lit. "falling stone." Also pronounced otoshi-ishi. One of the trump stones *yaku-ishi 役石 in front of the crawl door *nijiriguchi 躙口 entrance to the tea hut *chashitsu 茶室. It is also called the second stone *niban-ishi 二番石 because it follows the *fumi-ishi 踏石, placed first outside the chashitsu, and in front of the *nori-ishi 乗石. According to the Sekishūryūdensho 石州流伝書, the ochi-ishi is placed between the fumi-ishi and the nori-ishi, but is usually about 3 cm lower than the fumi-ishi and about 3 cm higher than the nori-ishi.