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KEY WORD :　architecture / tea houses

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 床の間, 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 淀看の席 at Saiouin 西翁院, Kyoto.

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