tsurikabe　釣壁

KEY WORD :　architecture / general terms

Also written 吊壁. A narrow wall suspended from a ceiling to form the front and side of a boundary for an alcove set in the corner of a tearoom. Such an alcove *tsuridoko 釣床 has no other structural demarcations to set it apart from the rest of the room but does not have a hanging scroll, fan, for decoration. The tsuribake has hanging struts tsurizuka 吊束 where its two parts join the wall and the outer corner. A slender piece of horizontal trim *otoshigake 落掛 is stretched along the bottom between the two hanging struts tsurizuka.

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*hirukan 蛭環, *kokabe 小壁.

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