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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
agesudo 揚簀戸

Lit. raised lattice door. A type of small middle gate or wicket *kido 木戸, used to…

Architecture, Tea Houses
agetekiri 上げ手切

A firebox that is cut into the upper part of the mat next to the host's mat *temae…

Architecture, Tea Houses
aidaruki 間垂木 ✓

A treatment of the underside of a roof, with thin bamboo placed between rafters under the roof *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
ajiro 網代 ✓

A woven or plaited wickerwork mat made of strips of bamboo sheathing, thin strips of cryptomeria, straight-grained…

Architecture, Tea Houses
amigasa 編笠 ✓

One type of Korean style tea bowl *chawan 茶碗, with white brush strokes on the…

Architecture, Tea Houses
amigasamon 編笠門

Also written 網笠門. A wattle-hood gate. A simple gate used as a middle gate in a garden *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
arare koboshi 霰零し

Lit. scattered hail stones. A method of paving *tama-ishijiki 玉石敷, in…

Architecture, Tea Houses
arare kuzushi 霰崩 ✓

Simplified hail stone style of round-stone paving *tama-ishijiki…

Architecture, Tea Houses
ararebai 霰灰 ✓

A type of coarse ash used in a tea ceremony brazier. Usually it is covered with makibai 蒔灰, a finer ash with a…

Architecture, Tea Houses
arigoshi 蟻腰

The name of one section of a tea scoop. It is the deep indentation at the back part of a bamboo tea scoop *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
asagaokugi 朝顔釘 ✓

Lit. morning glory nail. A two-pronged nail bent into a right angle for the purpose of hanging a flower vase. The nail…

Architecture, Tea Houses
Rikyū chadōgu zue 利休茶道具図会

Sen no Rikyū's 千利休 (1522-91) writings concerning measurements for tea ceremony utensils. Yamada Sōhen 山田宗へん (1627-1708)…

Architecture, Tea Houses
ro-datami 炉畳

Also kagi-datami 鍵畳. The straw mat *tatami 畳, into which…

Architecture, Tea Houses
robuchi 炉縁 ✓

The frame placed around the fire-box *rodan 炉壇, in a tea ceremony room *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
robuta 炉蓋 ✓

A wooden lid about 1.8 cm thick used to cover the fixed-hearth *rodan 炉壇 in a tea…

Architecture, Tea Houses
rodan 炉壇

A fire box. The fixed, box-like hearth providing a place for a bed of ashes on which charcoal is burned to heat a kettle of…

Architecture, Tea Houses
roji 露地

Lit. "dewy ground." Commonly known as a tea garden *chaniwa 茶庭,…

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