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hachiro 八炉 ✓

The eight basic ways of positioning a hearth, *ro 炉, in a tea ceremony room, *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hakamagoshi 袴腰 ✓

1 A trapezoidal form created on top of the posts that frame the host's entrance *…

Architecture, Tea Houses, Structures, Buildings
hakamazuri-ishi 袴ずり石

Lit. hakama 袴 brushing stone. A name for the front stone in a stone grouping arranged around a low basin *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hanaire 花入

A container for displaying flowers, or a flower vase. Generally, there are three types found in tea ceremony rooms *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hanakugi 花釘 ✓

A nail used to hang a flower vase in a tea ceremonyroom *chashitsu 茶室. Some…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hanme 半目

Also called hankirime 半切目. Wale next to the binding of a straw mat *tatami…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hanmekiri 半目切

Also called *hanme 半目; kogirime 小切目. The partially exposed wale next to…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hasami shikii kamoi 挟敷居鴨居

The threshold and head jamb used for a single sliding door at the guest's entrance *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hashirakugi 柱釘

Also *hanakugi 花釘. A nail on which a flower vase can be hung. It is nailed…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hatsu-no-ishi 初の石

Lit. first stone. The stone nearest the crawl-in entrance *nijiriguchi…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hengaku 扁額

1 Also called *gaku 額. A tablet or board, framed or unframed, on…

Architecture, Tea Houses, Art History, Painting
hibashi 火箸

Also called koji 火筋 or hisuji. Lit. fire-chopsticks. Charcoal tongs. A pair of metal chopsticks used for…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hikidake 引竹

Transverse finishing bamboo attached to a sleeve wall *sodekabe 袖壁. It is…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hirakishōji 開障子

A translucent paper-covered frame attached to a door jam by a socket hinge hijitsubo 肘壷 or chōtsugai 蝶番,…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hirasanjō 平三畳 ✓

Also hirasanjō-no-seki 平三畳席. A three-mat tea ceremony room *chashitsu…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hiroma 広間

1 The generic term used for a large room occupying the full cross section of a building in Edo period…

Architecture, Aristocratic Dwellings, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings
hirukan 蛭環 ✓

Also hirukagi 蛭鈎 or hirukugi 蛭釘. Lit. leech hook. A pothook attached to the ceiling of the tea ceremony…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hishaku 柄杓

1 A utensil with a long handle and dipper used to ladle hot water from the kettle, or cold water from the…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hōdateguchi 方立口 ✓

Also hōtateguchi. An entrance to a tea ceremony room *chashitsu…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hondoko 本床 ✓

A formal alcove *tokonoma 床の間 in a large *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
hongatte 本勝手

Also called migigatte 右勝手. The so-called normal arrangement for most tea ceremony rooms *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
horadoko 洞床

Lit. cave alcove. A cave-like entrance to a tea ceremony room, partially enclosed by a side wall. The side wall is called *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
horaguchi 洞口

Also horakuchi. An opening on the side wall of an alcove *tokonoma…

Architecture, Tea Houses
Hosokawa Sansai Chasho 細川三斎茶書

A book of explanations and regulations of tea ceremony in one volume, believed to be the teaching of Ichio Iori 一尾伊織 (1602-…

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