kozashiki　小座敷

KEY WORD :　architecture / tea houses

Also *koma 小間. Lit. a small room. An old name for a small sized tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室. During the Muromachi period, tea ceremony rooms had six or eight mats rokujou 六畳 or hachijou 八畳, or 4 1/2 mats *yojouhan 四畳半. By the mid 16c, the fire-box was set into the floor and had a ditch reed shelf, yoshidana 葭棚. From that time the room was usually 4 1/2 mats or smaller. The smaller tea ceremony rooms were called kozashiki. Examples: 4 1/2 mats: Daitokuji Gyokurin-in Kasumidoko-no-seki 大徳寺玉林院霞床席 (1742); 3 mats: Daitokuji Jukouin Kan'in-no-seki 大徳寺聚光院閑隠席 (1741) in Kyoto; 2 mats: Taimadera Nakanobouseki 当麻寺中之坊席 (1645-1651) in Nara ; 2 mats plus 1 smaller: Daitokuji Shinjuan Teigyokuken 大徳寺真珠庵庭玉軒 (early 17c) in Kyoto; 1 mat plus 1 smaller mat: Kanden'an 菅田庵 (late 18c) in Shimane prefecture.

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