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Title Contains Image(s) Description Keywords
ō-ita 大板 ✓

A board which is placed on the host's mat *temaedatami 点前畳,…

Architecture, Tea Houses
ochi-ishi 落石

Lit. "falling stone." Also pronounced otoshi-ishi. One of the trump stones *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
ochitenjō 落天井 ✓

Lit. "dropped ceiling." Also called otoshitenjō 落し天井. A ceiling in a tea ceremony room above the host's mat *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
okiawase 置合

The arrangement of tea ceremony utensils in preparation for a tea ceremony. It is more rarely called okitsuke 置付.…

Architecture, Tea Houses
okidoko 置床

Also *tsukedoko 付床. An early type of removable alcove formed by placing a…

Architecture, Tea Houses
okigata 置形

The part of a ceramic tea bowl decorated with pattern. When used in a tea ceremony, the okigata is positioned…

Architecture, Tea Houses
okiro 置炉 ✓

A portable brazier used for a tea ceremony. It is usually 42 cm square with a height ranging from 21-24 cm. The hearth bed…

Architecture, Tea Houses
ōkoboshi shiki-ishi 大零し敷石

Lit. "large scattered paving stones."
One type of round-stone paving *tama-…

Architecture, Tea Houses
ōmagari 大曲

Lit. "large curve." An arrangement of stepping stones *tobi-ishi 飛石, laid in…

Architecture, Tea Houses
orekugi 折釘 ✓

A type of hooked nail made from one piece of iron. It is bent at a right angle and is square in cross section. The name is a…

Architecture, Tea Houses
oribedoko 織部床

A wall space allotted for hanging a scroll rather than a true alcove. It is characterized by a smoothly planed board, 15-20…

Architecture, Tea Houses
oribeguchi 織部口

An entrance to the guest's seat in a tea ceremony room. The size is between that of a noblemen's entrance *…

Architecture, Tea Houses
oribemado 織部窓

Also called monokakemado 物掛窓. A type of rustic window *shitajimado…

Architecture, Tea Houses
otoshigake 落掛 The lintel of the alcove *tokonoma 床の間, in a tea room or a window in a shoin style *… Architecture, Tea Houses
ottori 追取

The handle of a tea scoop *chashaku 茶杓, used to prepare powdered green…

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