A type of straw matted alcove in which either an ordinary *tatami mat is set on a wooden floor or is covered with only the finely woven top surface of a tatami mat. The alcove floor is most often elevated a step above the normal floor level and is faced with a framing board *tokogamachi 床框, usually finished with black lacquer.
In tea ceremony rooms, logs with their bark, or chamfered wood may be used. In large tea ceremony rooms *chashitsu 茶室, the alcove is constructed for either a single mat of usual dimensions, 1.82 m x 0.91 m, or sometimes it is made to accommodate a mat and a half. In small tea ceremony rooms daime 台目 size alcoves, half mats were common. The tatami have an usuberi 薄べり binding either in black, dark blue or patterned fabric. Example: Nanzenji Konchiin Hassōseki 南禅寺金地院八窓席, Kyoto.