yoritsuki 寄付

Also written 寄附.

1　Room immediately inside an entrance to the raised floor zone; *genkan 玄関, *naka-no-kuchi 中の口 or *uchigenkan 内玄関 in warrior class residences buke yashiki 武家屋敷, during the latter part of the Edo period. It seems to have functioned as a kind of inner vestibule and waiting area hikaeshitsu 控室, for attendants. It often had a plain board floor *itajiki 板敷. Surviving plans from the archives of Takatō 高遠 fief in Nagano Prefecture suggest that, particularly in the houses of middle ranking warriors, it referred to the room that was entered after passing through the subordinate entry, uchigenkan. It was sometimes called yoritsuki-no-ma 寄付の間, though this was sometimes a separate adjacent room. Yoritsuki could also refer to the entry itself as well as the space to which it gave access.

2　In traditional farmhouses nōka 農家, in parts of Saitama, Yamanashi, Shizuoka, Kyoto, Osaka, Hyōgo, Tottori, and Nagasaki Prefectures, yoritsuki refers to the room immediately adjacent to the upper side *kamite 上手 of the earth-floored area *doma 土間. It had a sunken hearth *irori 囲炉裏 and household shrine *kamidana 神棚 and functioned as an everyday living room. In Saitama Prefecture, it doubled as the eldest son's sleeping room. In Hyōgo Prefecture, it was also called kuchi-no-ma 口の間. In the Tanba 丹波 district of Kyoto, the kitchen area *daidokoro 台所 in the rear of the house was the family living room and the yoritsuki, together with the other front room *omote 表 in the upper position beyond it, constituted a two-room reception suite. Also called shimo-no-ma 下の間.

３　In farmhouses in Sakai 堺 and Tondabayashi 富田林 near Osaka, yoritsuki refers to a timber platform about 2 m wide projecting from the raised living rooms kyoshitsubu 居室部 into the earth-floored area. Also called *hiroshiki 広敷.

４　In vernacular houses *minka 民家, on the island of Tsushima 対馬, Nagasaki Prefecture, yoritsuki refers to an entrance hall constructed in front of the main reception rooms. It took the form of a projected pent roof *hisashi 廂, with freestanding posts at the two front corners.

５　In farmhouses in parts of Nagano, Gifu, and Aichi Prefectures, yoritsuki is an alternative term for *kyakuza 客座, one of the sitting places around the hearth.

6　A waiting shelter found in the outer tea garden *sotoroji 外露地. It is the place where guests enter the garden and wait to be invited into the tearoom *chashitsu 茶室. It may also be called *machiai 待合 (waiting room) because guests wait here, or hakamatsuke 袴付 (hakama cloaking area) because guests change into formal attire here. Originally a small structure, its size gradually increased. Since the 19th-century, the yoritsuki has been approximately same size as the tearoom, often three to eight *tatami 畳, and provided with a simple alcove *tokonoma 床の間 and hearth for making tea. The toilet *shitabara setchin下腹雪隠 also may be located here.