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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
sadōguchi 茶道口 ✓

Also written 茶堂口, 茶頭口; also chatateguchi 茶立口, or *katteguchi 勝手口.…

Architecture, Tea Houses
sagekiri 下げ切

A little used placement of the firebox *ro 炉, in a tea ceremony room *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
Saimyōji shiorido 西明寺枝折戸

Lit. "Saimyōji 西明寺-style latticed bamboo door." One type of raised lattice door *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
sanjūdana 三重棚 ✓

1 Triple shelves. Shelves which now are rarely seen in a tea ceremony room except at Nishihonganji…

Architecture, Tea Houses
sarudo 猿戸 ✓

Lit. "monkey door." A type of bolted gate, called a wicket or a *kido 木戸, used at…

Architecture, Tea Houses
sashi-ishi 差石

Small, oblong (6-10 cm) or rectangular stones placed in the space below the bamboo wall base kabedomari 壁留り of the…

Architecture, Tea Houses
sekimori-ishi 関守石 ✓

Lit. "barrier-keeper stone." A stone placed atop a stepping stone *tobi-ishi…

Architecture, Tea Houses
Sekishū-ryū 石州流

1 An Edo period school of tea ceremony founded by Katagiri Sekishū 片桐石州 (1605-73). Branch schools…

Architecture, Tea Houses
Sekishū sanbyakukajō 石州三百ヶ条

A tea ceremony encyclopedia based on the methods of Katagiri Sekishu 片桐石州 (1605-73), who is believed to have authored 300…

Architecture, Tea Houses, Document
shakutate 杓立

Also hishakutate 柄杓立. A ladle stand or holder for the ladle or dipper, and charcoal tongs. Shakutate is…

Architecture, Tea Houses
shiki-ishi 敷石 ✓

A stone-cutting technique for paving stones. According to certain tea ceremony sources various sized stones were used for…

Architecture, Tea Houses
shikishimado 色紙窓 ✓

Lit. "poetry paper windows." *Shikishi 色紙 refers to the square paper on which short poems…

Architecture, Tea Houses
shiorido 枝折戸 ✓

Also written 紫折戸. Lit. "broken branch door." A type of wicket *kido 木戸 used at…

Architecture, Tea Houses
shitabara setchin 下腹雪隠

Also pronounced the kafuku setchin. A functional toilet placed in the outer tea garden *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
shitajimado 下地窓 ✓

Also written 助枝窓. Also called nurisashimado 塗さし窓, nurinokoshimado 塗残し窓, kakisashimado 掻さし窓. A…

Architecture, Tea Houses
shōbanseki 相伴席

A special mat for one or more guests, shōban 相伴, who are companions to the guest of honor, shōkyaku…

Architecture, Tea Houses
sōan 草庵

A small, rustic style tea ceremony structure up to 4 1/2 mats *yojōhan 四畳半,…

Architecture, Tea Houses
sokujō 触杖

Also called sunakake 砂かけ, sunasukui 砂掬い, and ezue え杖. Also written 束杖. A thin wooden board…

Architecture, Tea Houses
Sōtan nikki 宗湛日記

The diaries of Kamiya Sōtan 神谷宗湛 (1551-1635), a wealthy merchant and tea ceremony master in Fukuoka Prefecture. Written…

Architecture, Tea Houses, Document
Sōtankitsune 宗旦狐

A tea ceremony legend that probably dates from the first half of the 17th century. An old fox, the story goes, lived in the…

Architecture, Tea Houses
sōteigakoi 宗貞囲 ✓

Also called sōtei zashiki 宗貞座敷. A 3-mat tea ceremony room *chashitsu…

Architecture, Tea Houses
sotogaki 外垣

Lit. "outer fence." A generic name for any fence that encloses a tea ceremony house and garden *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
sotoroji 外露地

Outer tea garden. The section of the double teagarden nijū roji 二重露地 closest to the entrance gate, sotorojimon…

Architecture, Tea Houses
sukiya 数奇屋

A tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室 distinguished from a genuine tea ceremony…

Architecture, Tea Houses
sumichigai 隅違い

1 A term referring to the arrangement of the utensils employed during a tea ceremony. Specifically, …

Architecture, Tea Houses
sumiro 隅炉

One of several arrangements for positioning the fire-box *ro 炉 or fixed hearth in a…

Architecture, Tea Houses
sunasetchin 砂雪隠

Lit. "sand toilet." Originally a functioning toilet for use during tea gatherings, it later became a purely ornamental…

Architecture, Tea Houses
sute-ishi 捨石

Lit. "discarded stone." One of the seven trump stones *nanatsu-ishi…

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