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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
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