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Lit. boar's eye window. A window in a tea ceremony structure thought to resemble a boar's eye.
The window is really more of a heart-shaped opening in the wall at the side of the alcove *tokonoma °‚ΜŠΤ, in a tea ceremony house or in a short wall dropped from the ceiling about a third of the way down across the front of the tokonoma. It allowed some light to enter the tokonoma, for example in the Yodomi-no-seki —„ŠΕ‚ΜΘ at Saiouin Ό‰₯‰@, Kyoto.
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