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TEA DRINKING CUSTOMS OF THE WORLD

THE TRADITION OF CHANOYU

RIKYU'S CHANOYU AND ITS LINEAGE

THE TEA ROOM AND THE TEA GARDEN

Traditional houses and the tea room

Techniques and materials

Omotesenke's tea rooms and gardens

The Juraku residence

The restoration of the Sen family residence

Sotan's one-and-a-half mat Fushin'an tea room

Koshin's Fushin'an

Omotesenke before the Great Fire of 1788

After the Great Fire of Tenmei -The structure of the tea garden up to the present day

From the Nakakuguri gateway to the Zangetsutei tea room

Fushin'an and the inner tea garden

The Shichijo tea room

Sodo (Founder's Hall)

The Hogobari tea room

The new practice room (Keikoba)

The appearance of the Omotesenke

FORMS AND BEHAVIOR

TEA UTENSILS

After the Great Fire of Tenmei -The structure of the tea garden up to the present day

After the Great Fire of Tenmei, the roji at Omotesenke changed completely. Fushin'an was separated from Zangetsutei and moved to the east. The roji which had previously faced from south to north now faced from west to east. The roji was positioned south of Zangetsutei so that it was possible to enter the Zangetsutei from the roji. A new seven mat practice room (shichijo) and Sodo (Founder's Hall) were built by Sottakusai. Finally in the time of Kyukosai a separate Sodo was built facing west to the south of the Zangetsutei tea garden.

So there was a complex arrangement of roji at Omotesenke, with the outer roji on the west side, the roji in front of the Zangetusutei, Fushin'an's inner roji on the east side and the roji in front of the Sodo. In Meiji 39 (1906) Omotesenke was destroyed by fire except for the Rikyudo (Founder's Hall), but it was restored almost unchanged and this is what survives today.

Fushin'an, which was rebuilt in Taisho 2 (1913), is said to have remained almost the same inside and outside since the time of Koshin. It is the tea room which symbolizes Omotesenke and stands in that part of the roji which is furthest from the entrance, facing south.

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