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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
takekugi 竹釘

A bamboo nail. Usually the nail is 7.5 mm square and made from giant bamboo madake 真竹 (also nigatake 苦竹).…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tama-ishijiki 玉石敷 ✓

A type of paving using naturally rounded stones *tama-ishi 玉石, about 15-30 cm in diameter.…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tana 棚

Shelves.

1  A type of shelf, sometimes with a rack, of which there are many ordinary household…

Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings
tanamono 棚物

A simplified portable shelf *daisu 台子 set on the host's mat *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tatamidoko 畳床

A type of straw matted alcove in which either an ordinary *tatami mat is set on…

Architecture, Tea Houses
temae-datami 点前畳

Also called *dōgu-datami 道具畳, or kyo-datami 居畳. The straw mat…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tesaki 手先

1 A term used to count the number of steps of a bracket complex. For example, futatesaki 二手先, …

Architecture, Tea Houses
teshoku-ishi 手燭石

Lit. "candlestick stone." One of the *yaku-ishi 役石 of the *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tobi-ishi 飛石 ✓

Lit. "stepping stones." As the key material for the path of the *roji …

Architecture, Tea Houses
toko-bashira 床柱 ✓

Also called nihon-bashira 二本柱, because originally both the pillars to the left and right of the alcove *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tokomado 床窓

The window in the alcove *tokonoma 床の間 of tea ceremony rooms *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tokonoma 床の間

Lit. "alcove room." A *tatami 畳 mat room with a small alcove. There…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tsuchibisashi 土廂 ✓

Also called sutebisashi 捨廂. A pent roof with its under structure exposed that extends above a hardpacked earthen…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tsuchitenjō 土天井

A ceiling with a clay or mud plaster coating. Used in tea ceremony house *chashitsu…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tsukedoko 付床

A wooden platform, about 95 cm x 45 cm, attached to a wall to form a type of alcove which has no ceiling or extended wall…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tsukiagemado 突上窓 ✓

Also written 突揚窓. A skylight built into the sloping ceiling *kakekomi tenjō…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tsukubai 蹲踞 ✓

Lit. "stooping basin." A low wash basin used in a tea garden. One has to stoop down to use the basin, hence the name. Before…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tsunodo 角戸

Also tsunogarado 角柄戸. Lit. "rectangular door." A type of wicket *kido…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tsuridana 釣棚

A general term for hanging shelves or shelves suspended from the ceiling by a stick or a piece of bamboo, especially used in…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tsuridoko 釣床 ✓

Also written 吊床, or called kabedoko 壁床. A type of alcove *tokonoma 床の間 which has…

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