Chashitsu (tea room or tea house) is, as the name implies, a tatami room where you drink tea. However, that's not all. C...

Furuta Shigenari (commonly known as Furuta Oribe), 1 of Rikyu's magnificent 7 disciples, had the influence of Sen no Rik...

You can find the primitive form of "chashitsu of souan" in the teahouse of "rinkan-no-cha (淋汗の茶)," which is a custom of ...

In the early chashitsu (tea room or tea house), the samurai housing style "shoin-zukuri," which was formed by developing...

The Momoyama tea pottery, born around the Azuchi-Momoyama period (1573-1603), has uniquely distorted shapes, and the mud...

As it’s called "chanoyu" (hot water of tea), it is indispensable to boil water in chashitsu (tea room or tea house).Fire...

Traditional Japanese architecture is characterised by its open structure, but chashitsu has very few windows and is a ve...

Chashitsu (tea room or tea house) is a place where people and nature come into contact. Even in the city, there is basic...

Chashitsu (tea room or tea house) cannot be talked about without tea. Saichou, a Buddhist priest who accompanied the env...