daimebashira　台目柱
CATEGORY:　architecture / tea houses
　
Also called *nakabashira 中柱　or *magaribashira 曲柱. A small post placed in the corner of a tea ceremony room where the firebox is set into the smaller mat known as *daimedatami 台目畳. The post is made of various types of wood: plum, ume 梅, flowering cherry, sakura 桜; red pine, akamatsu 赤松; and an unbarked slender log or piece of bamboo. A special bent nail *fukurokakekugi 袋掛釘, used to hang a flower vase, is frequently hammered into the post. Example: Saihoujii Shounantei 西芳寺湘南亭 (1596-1615), Kyoto.
　
　

　
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