Keywords
Architecture
Aristocratic Dwellings
1 A north room in the western pent-roof structure *hisashi 廂 of the Seiryōden 清涼殿 (part of the Imperial Palace) which served as the emperor's bathroom.
2 A bathing room in the mansions of the nobility.
3 In the Edo period, the room in a nobleman's mansion where water was boiled for tea.