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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
takekugi 竹釘

A bamboo nail. Usually the nail is 7.5 mm square and made from giant bamboo madake 真竹 (also nigatake 苦竹).…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tama-ishijiki 玉石敷 ✓

A type of paving using naturally rounded stones *tama-ishi 玉石, about 15-30 cm in diameter.…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tana 棚

Shelves.

1  A type of shelf, sometimes with a rack, of which there are many ordinary household…

Architecture, General Terms, Aristocratic Dwellings, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings
tanamono 棚物

A simplified portable shelf *daisu 台子 set on the host's mat *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tatamidoko 畳床

A type of straw matted alcove in which either an ordinary *tatami mat is set on…

Architecture, Tea Houses
temae-datami 点前畳

Also called *dōgu-datami 道具畳, or kyo-datami 居畳. The straw mat…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tesaki 手先

1 A term used to count the number of steps of a bracket complex. For example, futatesaki 二手先, …

Architecture, Tea Houses
teshoku-ishi 手燭石

Lit. "candlestick stone." One of the *yaku-ishi 役石 of the *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tobi-ishi 飛石 ✓

Lit. "stepping stones." As the key material for the path of the *roji …

Architecture, Tea Houses
toko-bashira 床柱 ✓

Also called nihon-bashira 二本柱, because originally both the pillars to the left and right of the alcove *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tokomado 床窓

The window in the alcove *tokonoma 床の間 of tea ceremony rooms *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tokonoma 床の間

Lit. "alcove room." A *tatami 畳 mat room with a small alcove. There…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tsuchibisashi 土廂 ✓

Also called sutebisashi 捨廂. A pent roof with its under structure exposed that extends above a hardpacked earthen…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tsuchitenjō 土天井

A ceiling with a clay or mud plaster coating. Used in tea ceremony house *chashitsu…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tsukedoko 付床

A wooden platform, about 95 cm x 45 cm, attached to a wall to form a type of alcove which has no ceiling or extended wall…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tsukiagemado 突上窓 ✓

Also written 突揚窓. A skylight built into the sloping ceiling *kakekomi tenjō…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tsukubai 蹲踞 ✓

Lit. "stooping basin." A low wash basin used in a tea garden. One has to stoop down to use the basin, hence the name. Before…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tsunodo 角戸

Also tsunogarado 角柄戸. Lit. "rectangular door." A type of wicket *kido…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tsuridana 釣棚

A general term for hanging shelves or shelves suspended from the ceiling by a stick or a piece of bamboo, especially used in…

Architecture, Tea Houses
tsuridoko 釣床 ✓

Also written 吊床, or called kabedoko 壁床. A type of alcove *tokonoma 床の間 which has…

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