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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
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
ō-ita 大板 ✓

A board which is placed on the host's mat *temaedatami 点前畳,…

Architecture, Tea Houses
ochi-ishi 落石

Lit. "falling stone." Also pronounced otoshi-ishi. One of the trump stones *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
ochitenjō 落天井 ✓

Lit. "dropped ceiling." Also called otoshitenjō 落し天井. A ceiling in a tea ceremony room above the host's mat *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
okiawase 置合

The arrangement of tea ceremony utensils in preparation for a tea ceremony. It is more rarely called okitsuke 置付.…

Architecture, Tea Houses
okidoko 置床

Also *tsukedoko 付床. An early type of removable alcove formed by placing a…

Architecture, Tea Houses
okigata 置形

The part of a ceramic tea bowl decorated with pattern. When used in a tea ceremony, the okigata is positioned…

Architecture, Tea Houses
okiro 置炉 ✓

A portable brazier used for a tea ceremony. It is usually 42 cm square with a height ranging from 21-24 cm. The hearth bed…

Architecture, Tea Houses
ōkoboshi shiki-ishi 大零し敷石

Lit. "large scattered paving stones."
One type of round-stone paving *tama-…

Architecture, Tea Houses
ōmagari 大曲

Lit. "large curve." An arrangement of stepping stones *tobi-ishi 飛石, laid in…

Architecture, Tea Houses
orekugi 折釘 ✓

A type of hooked nail made from one piece of iron. It is bent at a right angle and is square in cross section. The name is a…

Architecture, Tea Houses
oribedoko 織部床

A wall space allotted for hanging a scroll rather than a true alcove. It is characterized by a smoothly planed board, 15-20…

Architecture, Tea Houses
oribeguchi 織部口

An entrance to the guest's seat in a tea ceremony room. The size is between that of a noblemen's entrance *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
oribemado 織部窓

Also called monokakemado 物掛窓. A type of rustic window *shitajimado…

Architecture, Tea Houses
otoshigake 落掛 The lintel of the alcove *tokonoma 床の間, in a tea room or a window in a shoin style *… Architecture, Tea Houses
ottori 追取

The handle of a tea scoop *chashaku 茶杓, used to prepare powdered green…

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