roji

Japanese garden

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association with cha-shitsu

  • interior of a cha-shitsu
    In cha-shitsu

    …a small garden called a roji (“dewy path”), the first step in breaking communication with the outer world. The tea house is usually a small, thatched-roof structure with plain plaster walls, whose several openings, placed at different heights and filled with shoji (sliding panels of wooden lattice covered with translucent…

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