tsuchitenjou　土天井

KEY WORD :　architecture / tea houses

A ceiling with a clay or mud plaster coating. Used in tea ceremony house *chashitsu 茶室 architecture. Examples: a ceiling four mats in size at Miharashidai 見晴台 in Shounantei 湘南亭 at Saihouji 西芳寺, Kyoto. Tradition has it that Honnami Koetsu 本阿弥光悦 (1558-1637) used this type of ceiling over the mat interior of the Daikoan 大虚庵 tea cottage built in Takagamine 鷹ヶ峰, Kyoto.

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