Ⅱ. Sasa Rikyu outlined 5. in the open field 5
(Scan) Brown Building "箬庵 (Jakuan)"
In building that forms the center of the bamboo palace, various grudge is incorporated, is representative of building a very bamboo Rikyu a dense making lump is.
① configuration
Whole is a tea house of Ritsurei. Chair is free to talk tea building look forward to tea and admiring the views of the different garden at each position in the formula. During the front left side of the Hojo in the Lord chamber decor sitting in swastika-type, (width of about 1.5 times the legal wife) front right side of the slave becomes the room are also still arranged sitting in swastika-type, It has become the center of the Lord room and the slave becomes the chamber provided with a mizuya design. All people regardless of the school has become a enjoy such a design the tea.
A provided boiling tea table position "Hachimine desk (Taku Happo)" is what there is only one at a time to bamboo palace and Hikone one meeting flow valuable.
② the underlying window (Shitajimado)
One of the appearance on the characteristic of the "箬庵" is a major underlying window in the front. The underlying window that peek is the base from "leaving a coating of mud" or "collapsed mud walls", but is a technique that is frequently used in Sukiya architecture to produce a taste of apology Sabi, a large base window far not see the kind Hmm. Novelty of the late Kiyoshi Yasui of design can ask. It not in closed while a tea house, in the design to incorporate nature actively of Tateshina, goodness of the missing will pull the eye.
③ "箬庵 (Jakuan)" Hengaku
The "箬" is the meaning of the "bamboo" in Chinese characters. Also it is also represented as "篛 (weak)". Those "young" of the "bamboo", a Chinese character that means "bamboo" in the sense of those "weak". Character referred to as "bamboo" is born in Japan is not in China "native script", was to read and this is before the "bamboo" is used in Japan, wrote that "Kotake," "bamboo". "箬" is the botanical is a "箬竹 (weak area) / Oobayadake". Masthead is Chairman Takaaki Oizumi book.
④ legal wife
In hermitage with a swastika-shaped seat that opens to three sides of the Hojo, it has mainly become the Kitayama cedar pure white dress pillar, to heavy-built, such as the rafters. The Hojo By the space of Yojohan of Kyoma, it is to be a space of the best place for people to discuss human. Sitting of are arranged in swastika is, noble people are sitting to face to the front, it is a consideration for you do not like the fact that hit the line of sight, of imperial Yukari garden Azumaya (pavilion), and the like also this design It has been incorporated. There is a similar swastika seat of the hermitage it is a sister garden of bamboo palace, Texas San Antonio City "Kumamoto Garden".