tokogamachi　床框

KEY WORD :　architecture / general terms

A transverse member set across the front of the bottom part of an alcove *tokonoma 床の間 to hide the rough structural members that are used to make the alcove surface higher than that of the straw mats *tatami 畳 in a tea ceremony room *chashitsu 茶室. In a formal tea ceremony room *shoin 書院 the tokogamachi is chamfered and covered with black lacquer. For semi-formal alcoves, one type of tokogamachi has several coats of lacquer tameurushi 溜漆 except on the unstripped bark part of the chamferred post. Another method is to use a thin coat of lacquered so that the wood grain can be seen, sukashi-nuri 透塗. At Nanzenji Konchi-in Hassouseki 南禅寺金地院八窓席 in Kyoto, there is an unusual alcove frame with black lacquer applied on unglazed ceramic. At Nishihonganji Kinkaryou Chaseki 西本願寺金華寮茶席 in Kyoto, very black baked Seto ceramic *setoyaki 瀬戸焼 is used for the tokogamachi. For the hut type tea ceremony alcoves, the tokogamachi is made from boards with bark remaining or logs from various kinds of trees. Sometimes it is finished only with scraping by an adze *chouna 釿.

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