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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
naga-ita 長板

Lit. "a long board."


1 The board used as the base of the *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
naka-ita 中板

A board which is inserted between the host's mat *temaedatami 点前畳 and the…

Architecture, Tea Houses
nakabachi-no-tsukubai 中鉢の蹲踞

A garden wash-basin set characterized by the use of gravel surrounding it. The gravel allows the water from hand washing to…

Architecture, Tea Houses
nakabashira 中柱

1 Also *daimebashira 台目柱. A small pillar which stands at…

Architecture, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings
nakaita-no-seki 中板席

A tea ceremony room or house that contains a board *naka-ita 中板, set between the host's mat…

Architecture, Tea Houses
nakakugi 中釘

Also *hanakugi 花釘, tokonakakugi 床中釘 (see *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
nakakuguri 中潜

Lit. "middle wicket." Also pronounced uchisomi. It is sometimes called kuguri 潜. A type of middle…

Architecture, Tea Houses
nanatsu-ishi 七つ石

Seven trump stones in the *roji 露地 or tea garden. They are the hand-washing stone…

Architecture, Tea Houses
Nanbōroku 南方録

Book of Sen no Rikyū's 千利休 (1522-91) tea ceremony secrets which consists of seven volumes entitled: "Memoranda Oboegaki…

Architecture, Tea Houses, Document
narukodo 鳴子戸

A gate used between the outer and inner gardens *roji 露地 leading to a teahouse *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
natsume 棗 ✓

A tea caddy for storing weak green powdered tea. Also called *usuchaki…

Architecture, Tea Houses
nijiriguchi 躙口 ✓

Also called nijiri agariguchi 躙上り口; nijirido 躙戸 and kuguriguchi 潜口. Lit. "a crawl-in or wriggle-…

Architecture, Tea Houses
nijūdana 二重棚 ✓

Also nijū tsuridana 二重釣棚. A double hanging shelf *tsuridana 釣棚,…

Architecture, Tea Houses
nobedan 延段 ✓

Also written 展段 and 展檀. A method of stone paving in the *roji 露地 or tea garden in…

Architecture, Tea Houses
nori-ishi 乗石

Lit. "mounting stone." One of the trump stones *yaku-ishi 役石 placed in front…

Architecture, Tea Houses
norigoe-ishi 乗越石

Lit. "step-over stone." One of the trump stones *yaku-ishi 役石 set…

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