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The frame placed around the fire-box *rodan ˜F’d, in a tea ceremony room *chashitsu ’ƒŽΊ. The robuchi is 42 cm square, 6.7 cm high, and 3.6 cm wide on top, and slightly less at the bottom because the inner side is chamfered. The robuchi in a rural tea ceremony room *inakama “cŽΙŠΤ, is slightly smaller, about 39.3cm square. Each piece of the frame butts against the side of the next in a clockwise direction. The right angle joints are locked together by tenon and mortise *hozoana ‚Ω‚ΌŒŠ.
In small tea ceremony houses of 4 1/2 mats *yojouhan Žlτ”Ό, or less, a plain wooden frame is common. In larger tea ceremony rooms, and in *shoin ‘‰@ type tea room, frames are lacquered and gold dust may be added. See *makie ŽͺŠG. Frames may be made also of black persimmon kurokaki •Š`, or mulberry kuwa ŒK. Occasionally varnish is rubbed into the wood with cloth or cotton.
During the season when the portable brazier is used (from April 1 to October), the mat used with the fixed-hearth is changed and the frame is taken off. When the fixed-hearth is set into the middle board *naka-ta ’†”Β, or merely covered with a wooden lid *robuta ˜FŠW, the frame is also removed, allowing the cover to be level with the surface of either *tatami or naka-ita.
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