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fukasanjō 深三畳

Also fukasanjō-no-seki 深三畳席. A tea ceremony room of three mats. One of the mats is about one quarter normal size,…

Architecture, Tea Houses
fukurodana 袋棚

Also fukurotodana 袋戸棚 or tenbukuro 天袋. Lit. enclosed shelf.

1 A small cupboard…

Architecture, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings
fukurodoko 袋床

Lit. pouch or pocket alcove. An alcove, *tokonoma 床の間, characterized by a…

Architecture, Tea Houses
fukurokakekugi 袋掛釘

Lit. bag-hanging nail. A bamboo or iron nail inserted into the middle post, *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
fukusa 袱紗

Also chabukusa 茶袱紗. A thick silk cloth used by the host at a tea ceremony to wipe tea bowls, *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
fumi-ishi 踏石 ✓

Lit. stepping stone. The stone placed directly under the crawl door entrance, *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
fumikomi-datami 踏込畳

A straw mat, *tatami 畳, which is placed adjacent to the door from which the…

Architecture, Tea Houses
fumikomidoko 踏込床 ✓

Also fungomidoko ふんごみ床. An alcove, *tokonoma 床の間, with a board floor…

Architecture, Tea Houses
fuminugiishi 踏脱石

Lit. one of the trump stones, *yaku-ishi 役石, at the guest's entrance to the…

Architecture, Tea Houses
fumiwake-ishi 踏分石 ✓

Lit. path-dividing stone. A type of trump stone, *yaku-ishi 役石. A stepping…

Architecture, Tea Houses
furo 風炉 ✓

A portable brazier used in the spring and summer seasons when the hearth or fire-box, *ro…

Architecture, Tea Houses
furosaki byōbu 風炉先屏風

Sometimes abbreviated to furosaki 風炉先. A partition used in a tea ceremony room *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
furosakimado 風炉先窓

Lit. window in front of stove. A window opened in the wall by the host's mat, *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
futaoki 蓋置 ✓

A stand, made of ceramic, bamboo, or metal, on which the lid of a tea ceremony kettle is placed. When the cover is placed on…

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