| Title | Contains Image(s) | Description | Keywords |
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| kabedoko 壁床 | ✓ | A wall alcove. An alcove that has no recessed space and no appurtenances such as a framing board *… |
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| kabutomon 兜門 | Lit. helmet gate. A type of front gate in tea gardens *roji 露地 that resembles a… |
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| kagami-ishi 鏡石 | Lit. mirror stone. |
Architecture, Tea Houses | |
| Kaiki 槐記 | The words and deeds of court-noble Konoe Iehiro 近衛家熈 (1667-1736) as collected by his personal physician Yamashina Dōan 山科道安… |
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| kakedo 掛戸 | Lit. hanging door. A door hung on the outside of a window to prevent the penetration of rain and wind. It is really a… |
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| kakegane 掛金 | ✓ | A ring or eyelet device used as a simple method of securing a hinged door *hirakido… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| kakekomi tenjō 掛込天井 | Also written 駆込天井, also called *keshō yaneura no kakekomi tenjō… |
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| kakeshōji 掛障子 | ✓ | A hanging translucent screen *shōji 障子 that is constructed with a light wooden… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| kakoi 囲 | Lit. enclosure. An old name for a tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室.… |
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| kama 釜 | A cauldron, iron pot, or kettle. See *chanoyugama 茶湯釜. |
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| kamihari tenjō 紙貼天井 | A ceiling on which layered paper has been pasted. The bottom, middle, and top layers of paper cover the area between the… |
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| kan'unjoku 寒雲卓 | ✓ | A type of pitcher shelf *mizusashidana 水指棚. A version of… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| kasumidoko 霞床 | Also kasumidoko-no-seki 霞床の席. An alcove *tokonoma 床の間, with… |
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| kata 肩 | 1 Lit. shoulder. The shoulder of a tea ceremony tea caddy or tea jar *… |
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| katanakake 刀掛 | ✓ | A single or double rack usually found at the outside left of a tea house entrance to hold the swords of warriors. Part of… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| katanakake-ishi 刀掛石 | Lit. sword rack stone. The trump stone *yaku-ishi 役石 set in… |
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| katōguchi 火灯口 | Also written 花頭口, 火頭口, 華頭口. Also called *sadōguchi 茶道口 or *… |
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| katte 勝手 | The term is believed to signify a place where one cooks food, kate wo kashigu 糧を炊ぐ, in use since the Kamakura… |
Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses | |
| kattedoko 勝手床 | Lit. kitchen alcove. Also teishudoko 亭主床. Sometimes called *gezadoko… |
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| katteguchi 勝手口 | 1 A service or tradesmen's entry. A house entry that lead to the kitchen; *… |
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| kayoiguchi 通い口 | Also *kyūjiguchi 給仕口. The host's entrance to a ceremony room *… |
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| kazarihachimae 飾鉢前 | An ornamental wash basin found on the side of a hallway *rōka 廊下, or around the… |
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| kekomidoko 蹴込床 | A simple style alcove *tokonoma 床の間 with a riser board kekomi-ita… |
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| kensui 建水 | ✓ | Also koboshi 零し. A waste-water container into which either hot or cold water is poured after a tea bowl has… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| Kihakuken 既白軒 | A tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室, at Myōshinji Keishun'in 妙心寺桂春院 in Kyoto.… |
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| kinin-datami 貴人畳 | Also called tokomaedatami 床前畳. Lit. a nobleman's tatami. A straw mat *… |
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| kinin-ishi 貴人石 | Lit. noble's stone. A type of trump stone *yaku-ishi 役石, used… |
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| kininguchi 貴人口 | ✓ | Also kinin agariguchi 貴人上り口. Lit. nobleman's entrance. An entrance made especially for noblemen or other… |
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| kinuhada 絹肌 | A generic name for an exceedingly smooth silky texture found on the shoulder, body, and lid of some kettles used for the tea… |
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| kireisabi きれいさび | Lit. refined rusticity. Also written 綺麗寂. An aesthetic ideal of the early 17th century associated with the *… |
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| kiri-ishi 切石 | Lit. cut stones. Angular, free cut stones that can be a paved walkway *nobedan… |
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| kiri-ishijiki 切石敷 | ✓ | Cut paving stones. The stones may be slabs cut freely in any desired shapes. The stone paving laid at Katsura Rikyū 桂離宮 in… |
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| kiridome 切止 | 1 The end of the handle of a tea scoop *chashaku 茶杓. Various… |
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| kirihikite 切引手 | Also *chiriotoshifusuma 塵落襖. A type of door catch found on a thick,… |
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| kissakōmongashi 喫茶敲門瓦子 | Lit. piece of tile knocking against the gate. A handbook on the Sen 千 family, tea ceremony, written by Fujii Iseki 藤井維石 and… |
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| ko-ita 小板 | ✓ | 1 The small strip of red pine that is inserted between the end of the firebox and the rear wall, or between… |
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| koguchidai-ishi 小口台石 | One of the seven trump stones *nanatsu-ishi 七つ石 used in a *… |
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| kokoboshi shiki-ishi 小零し敷石 | Lit. small scattered paving stones. A type of round-stone paving *tama-ishijiki… |
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| koma 小間 | A small tea ceremony room, from two to four and a half mats in size, which best encompasses the characteristics of the… |
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| koshibari 腰貼 | ✓ | Also written 腰張, 腰紙貼. The pasting of paper on the lower part of the clay wall in a tea ceremony room, one piece of which is… |
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| koshikake machiai 腰掛待合 | ✓ | A place provided in a tea garden where the mood and expectations of the participants are intensified while they wait until… |
Architecture, Tea Houses |
| Koyomibari-no-seki 暦張の席 | Also called Koyomitei 暦亭. The old calendar papers that were pasted to the base of the mud plaster wall of a small… |
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| kozashiki 小座敷 | Also *koma 小間. Lit. a small room. An old name for a small sized tea ceremony room… |
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| kugurido 潜り戸 | 1 A generic term for a small door, very often a wicket door set into the leaf of another larger door or… |
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| kuguriguchi 潜り口 | A generic term for a small low entrance through which one has to stoop or crawl. Often fitted in a large gate, so people may… |
Architecture, General Terms, Tea Houses | |
| kuniyaki 国焼 | Lit. country fired. An expression used by tea masters in the Edo period to refer to ceramic tea caddies *… |
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| kusari-no-ma 鎖の間 | ✓ | Lit. chain room. The origin of the term is unclear. According to the Fuhaku hikki 不白筆記 (Notes Written by Kawakami… |
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| kyaku-datami 客畳 | The guest's mat in a tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室. It is usually close to… |
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| kyaku-ishi 客石 | Lit. guest stone. A type of stepping stone *yaku-ishi 役石 placed… |
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| kyūdaisu 及台子 | ✓ | Kyūdaisu is an abridged form of kyūdai daisu 及第台子. Also written 弓台子. An informal type of portable… |
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| kyūjiguchi 給仕口 | Also called kamuroguchi 禿口, *kayoiguchi 通い口 or *… |
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