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Shigure-tei (Teahouse), Kenrokuen Gardens by TokyoViews Via Flickr: Photo: © tokyoviews.com
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Shigure-tei (Teahouse), Kenrokuen Gardens by TokyoViews Via Flickr: Photo: © tokyoviews.com
Shigure-tei (Teahouse), Kenrokuen Gardens by TokyoViews Via Flickr: Photo: © tokyoviews.com
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Shigure-tei (Tea Room), Kenrokuen Garden by Tokyo Views on Flickr.
I'm at my wits end with my mom, God bless Barbara for providing shelter for me this weekend in Sao Paulo so I can fucking escape my bat shit crazy mother for four blessed days.
Kakuzo Okakura on the tea-room
The tea-room (the Sukiya) does not pretend to be other than a mere cottage—a straw hut, as we call it. The original ideographs for Sukiya mean the Abode of Fancy. Latterly the various tea-masters substituted various Chinese characters according to their conception of the tea-room, and the term Sukiya may signify the Abode of Vacancy or the Abode of the Unsymmetrical. It is an Abode of Fancy inasmuch as it is an ephemeral structure built to house a poetic impulse. It is an Abode of Vacancy inasmuch as it is devoid of ornamentation except for what may be placed in it to satisfy some aesthetic need of the moment. It is an Abode of the Unsymmetrical inasmuch as it is consecrated to the worship of the Imperfect, purposely leaving some thing unfinished for the play of the imagination to complete.
-- from The Book of Tea (Chapter IV, “The Tea-Room”)
A tea-room in Esfahan, Iran.
More pics at http://proficiscorestvivo.wordpress.com/2013/02/02/half-of-the-world/