chashitsu

Also known as Japanese tea houses, Japanese tea room, Japanese tea rooms, Japanese teahouses, Japanese teahouse, sukiya, cha-no-yu houses, chanoyu houses

thumb|Jo-an is a chashitsu (tea house) and inscribed as a National Treasure. thumb| in its garden setting, Itsuku-shima, Chashitsu (, 'tea room') in Japanese tradition is an architectural space designed to be used for tea ceremony (chanoyu) gatherings.

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Definition
History
Architecture
Typical names
Notable ''chashitsu''
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References
Further reading
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The architectural style that developed for chashitsu is referred to as the sukiya style (sukiya-zukuri), and the term sukiya () may be used as a synonym for chashitsu. Related Japanese terms are chaseki (), broadly meaning "place for tea", and implying any sort of space where people are seated to participate in tea ceremony, and chabana, "tea flowers", the style of flower arrangement associated with the tea ceremony.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “chashitsu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.