Roji (Tea Garden)
露地 / 16th century– / Style / Garden Styles
The garden that is a path: the approach to the tea room. Stepping stones, the crouching basin and the middle gate tune pace and mind — a mountain hermitage in the city, the time of arrival designed.
Stepping-stone pacing / The tsukubai basin / Outer and inner roji transition / A hermitage within the city
Dictionary entry
- Best used for
- Comparing primary sources and canonical works · Extracting principles that transfer to other media
- Type
- Observe the letters, signs and scale of reference works
- Composition
- Extract the one structure that governs gaze and information
- Material
- Verify the materials and behaviors specific to era, region and process
- Caution
- Don't reduce it to surface signs. Verify the context of era, region, technology and makers.
- Further study
- Rikyū's view of the roji / the placing of stepping stones / the path to Tai-an