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uchiroji 内露地

Inner tea garden. The part of the double tea garden nijū roji 二重露地, between the middle gate *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
urakumado 有楽窓

A type of window named for Oda Uraku 織田有楽 (1547-1621) which incorporates short, small, vertical stripes of bamboo placed…

Architecture, Tea Houses
ushiro-ishi 後石

Also *kagami-ishi 鏡石. Lit. "back stone." A stone water basin that…

Architecture, Tea Houses
usuchaki 薄茶器

Also abbreviated usuki 薄器. A container for weak-flavored tea. Early usuchaki had a cylindrical shape, but…

Architecture, Tea Houses
usumoributa 薄盛蓋

A lid with a high center used for a tea ceremony kettle *chanoyugama…

Architecture, Tea Houses

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JAANUS is the on-line Dictionary of Japanese Architectural and Art Historical Terminology compiled by Dr. Mary Neighbour Parent.

Originally built by the Atsumi International Scholarship Foundation, it is now hosted and maintained by the Media Center for Art History at Columbia University