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naga-ita 長板

Lit. "a long board."


1 The board used as the base of the *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
naka-ita 中板

A board which is inserted between the host's mat *temaedatami 点前畳 and the…

Architecture, Tea Houses
nakabachi-no-tsukubai 中鉢の蹲踞

A garden wash-basin set characterized by the use of gravel surrounding it. The gravel allows the water from hand washing to…

Architecture, Tea Houses
nakabashira 中柱

1 Also *daimebashira 台目柱. A small pillar which stands at…

Architecture, Tea Houses, Folk Dwellings
nakaita-no-seki 中板席

A tea ceremony room or house that contains a board *naka-ita 中板, set between the host's mat…

Architecture, Tea Houses
nakakugi 中釘

Also *hanakugi 花釘, tokonakakugi 床中釘 (see *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
nakakuguri 中潜

Lit. "middle wicket." Also pronounced uchisomi. It is sometimes called kuguri 潜. A type of middle…

Architecture, Tea Houses
nanatsu-ishi 七つ石

Seven trump stones in the *roji 露地 or tea garden. They are the hand-washing stone…

Architecture, Tea Houses
Nanbōroku 南方録

Book of Sen no Rikyū's 千利休 (1522-91) tea ceremony secrets which consists of seven volumes entitled: "Memoranda Oboegaki…

Architecture, Tea Houses, Document
narukodo 鳴子戸

A gate used between the outer and inner gardens *roji 露地 leading to a teahouse *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
natsume 棗 ✓

A tea caddy for storing weak green powdered tea. Also called *usuchaki…

Architecture, Tea Houses
nijiriguchi 躙口 ✓

Also called nijiri agariguchi 躙上り口; nijirido 躙戸 and kuguriguchi 潜口. Lit. "a crawl-in or wriggle-…

Architecture, Tea Houses
nijūdana 二重棚 ✓

Also nijū tsuridana 二重釣棚. A double hanging shelf *tsuridana 釣棚,…

Architecture, Tea Houses
nobedan 延段 ✓

Also written 展段 and 展檀. A method of stone paving in the *roji 露地 or tea garden in…

Architecture, Tea Houses
nori-ishi 乗石

Lit. "mounting stone." One of the trump stones *yaku-ishi 役石 placed in front…

Architecture, Tea Houses
norigoe-ishi 乗越石

Lit. "step-over stone." One of the trump stones *yaku-ishi 役石 set…

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
yōjibashira 楊子柱

Also called nuritatebashira 塗立柱, nuridashibashira 塗出柱 or yanagibashira 柳柱. A corner pillar in a…

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