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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
ichijōhan no seki 一畳半の席 ✓

Also written 一帖半の席. A very small tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室, no more…

Architecture, Tea Houses
ichijūdana 一重棚 ✓

Also ichijū tsuridana 一重釣棚. A single shelf suspended by a slender bamboo pole. It is made of paulownia when it…

Architecture, Tea Houses
ichirin ike 一輪生 ✓

A small flower vase which is just large enough for one flower stalk. Most vases of this type were made of ceramic but…

Architecture, Tea Houses
ido 井戸

1 A well supplying drinking water. It may be deep or narrow, depending on the depth of the water table. The…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses
imae 居前

The correct seating position for the host when performing tea ceremony. For example, in the Urasenke 裏千家 school, a portable…

Architecture, Tea Houses
inazuma kanamono 稲妻金物

T-shaped metal fitting inserted into a track and used for hanging scrolls in an alcove *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
inazuma orekugi 稲妻折釘

Also *nijū orekugi 二重折釘. A twice bent nail that is used under the ceiling…

Architecture, Tea Houses
inomedana 猪目棚 ✓

Also kariokidana 仮置棚. Lit. boar's eye shelf. A two-tiered shelf *nijūdana…

Architecture, Tea Houses
inomemado 猪目窓

Lit. boar's eye window. A window in a tea ceremony structure thought to resemble a boar's eye.

The window is really…

Architecture, Tea Houses
iriro 入炉

The placement of the fire-box or hearth cut within the host's mat *temae datami…

Architecture, Tea Houses
itadoko 板床 ✓

An alcove with a wooden floor instead of a *tatami 畳 mat. There…

Architecture, Tea Houses
itaokoshi 板起し

Also hegesoko 扮げ底, heragaeshi 箆返. The method of removing a ceramic tea caddy *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
yaku-ishi 役石 ✓

Also kaname-ishi 要石. Rocks and stones which in a tea garden *roji 露地…

Architecture, Tea Houses
yamatobuki 大和葺 ✓

1 A type of board roofing made by first spacing boards of equal width at predetermined intervals and then…

Architecture, General Terms, Tea Houses
yamatokaki 大和掻

A type of bamboo lattice entwined with wisteria vine set in a window opening *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
yanagikugi 柳釘

Also yanagikakekugi 柳掛け釘. A nail hammered into a partially plastered post yanagibashira 柳柱 (see *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
yōji-bashira 楊子柱

Also called nuritate bashira 塗立柱, nuridashi bashira 塗出柱 or yanagi bashira 柳柱. A corner pillar in…

Architecture, Tea Houses
yojōhan 四畳半 ✓

A four and a half 4 1/2 mat tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室, the most common…

Architecture, Tea Houses
yojōhangiri 四畳半切

Lit. "four mats and a half cut." A firebox or hearth used in a 4 1/2 mat or larger tea ceremony room *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
yokogi 横木

Also hikigi 引木 Lit. "horizontal timber." Although the term yokogi can refer to any horizontal timber, it…

Architecture, Tea Houses
yoritsuki 寄付

Also written 寄附.

1 Room immediately inside an entrance to the raised floor zone; *…

Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses
yose-ishijiki 寄石敷

Stone paving in which various sizes of cut and natural stones are arranged in unique patterns. Different sizes of regular…

Architecture, Tea Houses
yugamibashira 歪柱

Also called *magaribashira 曲柱. Lit. "crooked or bent post." Posts that…

Architecture, Tea Houses
yuoke-ishi 湯桶石

Also called yutōseki, katakuchi-ishi 片口石, yuage-ishi 湯揚げ石, and oke-ishi 桶石. Lit. "warm…

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