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Title	Contains Image(s)	Description	Keywords
horadoko 洞床		Lit. cave alcove. A cave-like entrance to a tea ceremony room, partially enclosed by a side wall. The side wall is called *…	Architecture, Tea Houses
horaguchi 洞口		Also horakuchi. An opening on the side wall of an alcove *tokonoma…	Architecture, Tea Houses
Hosokawa Sansai Chasho 細川三斎茶書		A book of explanations and regulations of tea ceremony in one volume, believed to be the teaching of Ichio Iori 一尾伊織 (1602-…	Architecture, Tea Houses
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
jiku 軸		1　A roller used for a hanging scroll *kakemono 掛物 or hand…	Art History, Painting, Tea Houses, Architecture
jikukakekugi　軸掛釘		Also jikukugi 軸釘, kakemonokugi 掛物釘. A hook for hanging scrolls, *…	Architecture, Tea Houses
jizaikagi 自在鈎	✓	A pothook. A device that enables a pot nabe 鍋 or tea kettle tetsubin 鉄瓶 to be suspended over a sunken…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses
jōzadoko　上座床		Lit. upper seat alcove. Also read kamizadoko. An alcove *tokonoma…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kabedoko 壁床	✓	A wall alcove. An alcove that has no recessed space and no appurtenances such as a framing board *…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kabutomon 兜門		Lit. helmet gate. A type of front gate in tea gardens *roji 露地 that resembles a…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kagami-ishi 鏡石		Lit. mirror stone. 1　A stone which is placed behind a hand wash basin *…	Architecture, Tea Houses
Kaiki 槐記		The words and deeds of court-noble Konoe Iehiro 近衛家熈 (1667-1736) as collected by his personal physician Yamashina Dōan 山科道安…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kakedo 掛戸		Lit. hanging door. A door hung on the outside of a window to prevent the penetration of rain and wind. It is really a…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kakegane 掛金	✓	A ring or eyelet device used as a simple method of securing a hinged door *hirakido…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kakekomi tenjō 掛込天井		Also written 駆込天井, also called *keshō yaneura no kakekomi tenjō…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kakeshōji 掛障子	✓	A hanging translucent screen *shōji 障子 that is constructed with a light wooden…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kakoi 囲		Lit. enclosure. An old name for a tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室.…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kama 釜		A cauldron, iron pot, or kettle. See *chanoyugama 茶湯釜.	Architecture, Tea Houses
kamihari tenjō 紙貼天井		A ceiling on which layered paper has been pasted. The bottom, middle, and top layers of paper cover the area between the…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kan'unjoku 寒雲卓	✓	A type of pitcher shelf *mizusashidana 水指棚. A version of…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kasumidoko 霞床		Also kasumidoko-no-seki 霞床の席. An alcove *tokonoma 床の間, with…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kata 肩		1　Lit. shoulder. The shoulder of a tea ceremony tea caddy or tea jar *…	Architecture, Tea Houses
katanakake 刀掛	✓	A single or double rack usually found at the outside left of a tea house entrance to hold the swords of warriors. Part of…	Architecture, Tea Houses
katanakake-ishi 刀掛石		Lit. sword rack stone. The trump stone *yaku-ishi 役石 set in…	Architecture, Tea Houses
katōguchi 火灯口		Also written 花頭口, 火頭口, 華頭口. Also called *sadōguchi 茶道口 or *…	Architecture, Tea Houses
katte 勝手		The term is believed to signify a place where one cooks food, kate wo kashigu 糧を炊ぐ, in use since the Kamakura…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses
kattedoko 勝手床		Lit. kitchen alcove. Also teishudoko 亭主床. Sometimes called *gezadoko…	Architecture, Tea Houses
katteguchi 勝手口		1　A service or tradesmen's entry. A house entry that lead to the kitchen; *…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses
kayoiguchi 通い口		Also *kyūjiguchi 給仕口. The host's entrance to a ceremony room *…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kazarihachimae 飾鉢前		An ornamental wash basin found on the side of a hallway *rōka 廊下, or around the…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kekomidoko 蹴込床		A simple style alcove *tokonoma 床の間 with a riser board kekomi-ita…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kensui 建水	✓	Also koboshi 零し. A waste-water container into which either hot or cold water is poured after a tea bowl has…	Architecture, Tea Houses
Kihakuken 既白軒		A tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室, at Myōshinji Keishun'in 妙心寺桂春院 in Kyoto.…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kinin-datami 貴人畳		Also called tokomaedatami 床前畳. Lit. a nobleman's tatami. A straw mat *…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kinin-ishi 貴人石		Lit. noble's stone. A type of trump stone *yaku-ishi 役石, used…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kininguchi 貴人口	✓	Also kinin agariguchi 貴人上り口. Lit. nobleman's entrance. An entrance made especially for noblemen or other…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kinuhada 絹肌		A generic name for an exceedingly smooth silky texture found on the shoulder, body, and lid of some kettles used for the tea…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kireisabi きれいさび		Lit. refined rusticity. Also written 綺麗寂. An aesthetic ideal of the early 17th century associated with the *…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kiri-ishi 切石		Lit. cut stones. Angular, free cut stones that can be a paved walkway *nobedan…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kiri-ishijiki 切石敷	✓	Cut paving stones. The stones may be slabs cut freely in any desired shapes. The stone paving laid at Katsura Rikyū 桂離宮 in…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kiridome 切止		1　The end of the handle of a tea scoop *chashaku 茶杓. Various…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kirihikite 切引手		Also *chiriotoshifusuma 塵落襖. A type of door catch found on a thick,…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kissakōmongashi 喫茶敲門瓦子		Lit. piece of tile knocking against the gate. A handbook on the Sen 千 family, tea ceremony, written by Fujii Iseki 藤井維石 and…	Architecture, Tea Houses
ko-ita 小板	✓	1　The small strip of red pine that is inserted between the end of the firebox and the rear wall, or between…	Architecture, Tea Houses
koguchidai-ishi 小口台石		One of the seven trump stones *nanatsu-ishi 七つ石 used in a *…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kokoboshi shiki-ishi 小零し敷石		Lit. small scattered paving stones. A type of round-stone paving *tama-ishijiki…	Architecture, Tea Houses
koma 小間		A small tea ceremony room, from two to four and a half mats in size, which best encompasses the characteristics of the…	Architecture, Tea Houses
koshibari 腰貼	✓	Also written 腰張, 腰紙貼. The pasting of paper on the lower part of the clay wall in a tea ceremony room, one piece of which is…	Architecture, Tea Houses
koshikake machiai 腰掛待合	✓	A place provided in a tea garden where the mood and expectations of the participants are intensified while they wait until…	Architecture, Tea Houses
Koyomibari-no-seki 暦張の席		Also called Koyomitei 暦亭. The old calendar papers that were pasted to the base of the mud plaster wall of a small…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kozashiki 小座敷		Also *koma 小間. Lit. a small room. An old name for a small sized tea ceremony room…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kugurido 潜り戸		1　A generic term for a small door, very often a wicket door set into the leaf of another larger door or…	Architecture, Folk Dwellings, Tea Houses
kuguriguchi 潜り口		A generic term for a small low entrance through which one has to stoop or crawl. Often fitted in a large gate, so people may…	Architecture, General Terms, Tea Houses
kuniyaki 国焼		Lit. country fired. An expression used by tea masters in the Edo period to refer to ceramic tea caddies *…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kusari-no-ma 鎖の間	✓	Lit. chain room. The origin of the term is unclear. According to the Fuhaku hikki 不白筆記 (Notes Written by Kawakami…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kyaku-datami 客畳		The guest's mat in a tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室. It is usually close to…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kyaku-ishi 客石		Lit. guest stone. A type of stepping stone *yaku-ishi 役石 placed…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kyūdaisu 及台子	✓	Kyūdaisu is an abridged form of kyūdai daisu 及第台子. Also written 弓台子. An informal type of portable…	Architecture, Tea Houses
kyūjiguchi 給仕口		Also called kamuroguchi 禿口, *kayoiguchi 通い口 or *…	Architecture, Tea Houses
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
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