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KEY WORD : architecture / tea houses | ||||||
A tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室, at Myoushinji Keishun-in 妙心寺桂春院
in Kyoto. It is said to have been the favorite of Fujimura Youken 藤村庸軒 (1613-99).
It is a three mat room *daimegiri
台目切, with a middle post *nakabashira
中柱. In the period when this room was built, the drinking of tea was suppressed,
and thus the room was dedicated to the principles of Zen 禅. However, in spite
of the restrictions some people enjoyed tea secretly. Therefore it was built to
circumvent its appearance as a tea ceremony room and could not be seen from the
garden. This was done by constructing a small wall in front of the guest's entrance
*nijiriguchi 躙口. The
ceilings within this small tea ceremony room have different heights. The ceiling
in front of the decorative alcove *tokonoma
床の間 is a board, with narrow splints attached *none-ita
tenjou 野根板天井, with ceiling wood none 野根, that came from Kouchi
prefecture. Above the hosts seat, temaeza 点前座, the ceiling is a dropped
ceiling
*ochitenjou 落天井. The
rest of the ceiling is open to reveal the underside of the roof *keshouyane
化粧屋根. |
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