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daime-datami 台目畳

Also written 代目畳, 大目畳. A straw mat about three-quarters the length of a standard size mat, about 135-137 cm long. In Kyoto…

Architecture, Tea Houses
daimebashira 台目柱

Also called *nakabashira 中柱 or *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
daimedoko 台目床

An alcove *tokonoma 床の間, with a wooden base, found in a small tea ceremony…

Architecture, Tea Houses
daimegiri 台目切

A placement of the firebox or hearth inside the guest's mat which results in a smaller than normal size tatami mat…

Architecture, Tea Houses
dairo 大炉

Also called ōro. A tea-room firebox or hearth made larger than the normal 42 cm square. Measurements varied, but…

Architecture, Tea Houses
daisu 台子

A fairly large, portable, double-shelved display for tea ceremony utensils. Traditionally, it was used at the most formal…

Architecture, Tea Houses
dero 出炉

A fixed-hearth, *ro 炉 or *rodan 炉壇,…

Architecture, Tea Houses
dōangakoi 道安囲

Lit. dōan enclosure. Also called dōan zashiki 道安座敷 (dōan room). An enclosure used in a tea…

Architecture, Tea Houses
dōangakoi-no-seki 道安囲席

A tea ceremony room with an enclosure, *dōangakoi 道安囲 named after Sen Dōan 千道安 (1546-1606…

Architecture, Tea Houses
dōgu-datami 道具畳

Lit. implement mat. The straw mat, *tatami 畳, on which the host sits when he…

Architecture, Tea Houses
dōko 洞庫

Also written 洞戸, 道幸, 道古, 堂庫、or 道籠. A storage space for utensils used for the tea ceremony. The earliest type was probably a…

Architecture, Tea Houses
machi-ishi 待石

Lit. "waiting stone." One of the seven trump stones *nanatsu-ishi 七つ石 in…

Architecture, Tea Houses
machiai 待合 ✓

Also machiaishitsu 待合室.

1 A waiting and resting shelter. Typically a rustic structure…

Architecture, Tea Houses
mae-ishi 前石

1 Also called kazari-ishi 飾石, tōage-ishi 灯あげ石, tōtomoshi-ishi 灯ともし石. A flat…

Architecture, Tea Houses
magaribashira 曲柱

Also pronounced magamibashira. Also called *yugamibashira 歪柱.…

Architecture, Tea Houses
marume 丸目 ✓

To expose the whole wale or rib next to the binding on a straw mat *tatami 畳.…

Architecture, Tea Houses
masudoko 桝床

An alcove room *tokonoma 床の間, usually 91 to 95 cm square, equal…

Architecture, Tea Houses
minatogami 湊紙

Also read minatoshi. Paper pasted from the edge of *tatami 畳 to at…

Architecture, Tea Houses
mizuage-ishi 水揚石

One of the trump stones for used in a wash-basin group *hachimae-no-ishigumi…

Architecture, Tea Houses
mizukumi-ishi 水汲石

One of the group of trump stones *yaku-ishi 役石 placed around…

Architecture, Tea Houses
mizusashi 水指 ✓

Also mizutsubo 水壷. Lit. "a water jar." A container of fresh water used either to fill the tea bowl *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
mizusashidana 水指棚

A small shelf unit with side boards that have an openwork *sukashibori…

Architecture, Tea Houses
mizuya dōko 水屋洞庫 ✓

A type of small built-in cabinet of the *mizuyadana 水屋棚 style placed in the wall of a tea…

Architecture, Tea Houses
mizuya 水屋 ✓

1 Also written 水遣, 水谷, 水舎. Also called *daidokoro 台所, *…

Architecture, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings
mizuyadana 水屋棚

Shelves constructed in the *mizuya 水屋, the room which serves as a kitchen for a…

Architecture, Tea Houses
monomi-ishi 物見石

Lit. "scenery-viewing stone." An alternate name for the *gakumi-ishi 額見石,…

Architecture, Tea Houses
morokazari 諸飾り

Alcove ornaments found in tea ceremony rooms of various types. The term morokazari is derived from the time when…

Architecture, Tea Houses
mukō-ita 向板 ✓

A board, usually of pine but sometimes Japanese cedar, placed between a normal sized host's mat *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
mukōgiri 向切 ✓

Also mukōgiriro 向切炉. Mukōgiri refers to *hongatte 本勝手 and…

Architecture, Tea Houses
murodoko 室床

Also called *horadoko 洞床 or tsuchidoko 土床. An alcove…

Architecture, Tea Houses
musōkugi 無双釘 ✓

Also musō orekugi 無双折釘. A type of nail used to hang a scroll in an alcove *…

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