| 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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