Konnichian - Konnichian

Located in the Urasenke tea house in Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto, this is the tea house that represents the family. It is a two-tatami tea house built by Sotan in 1646 (Shoho 3) in his retirement home, and in April 1649 (Keian 2), Matsuya Hisashige, who was invited to Sotan's tea house, wrote that "The two-tatami room of the retirement home is one and a half tatami mats, and the rest is wooden tatami mats. There is a central pillar, but there are no cutouts." This tea house, which has a central pillar and a side wall surrounding the front board, is clearly the same as the current Konnichi-an. A front board was placed in place of a toko beyond the temae tatami mat, and a mizuya doko, which is like a miniature version of the mizuya shelf in the kitchen, was added, and various functions were neatly concentrated in a two-tatami space. Regarding the mukoita, Kawakami Fuhaku said, "It is favored as a substitute for a floor in a small wabi room where even a floor is not placed." The ceiling structure, which is a single-slope all-roofed attic, is also an expression that shows the ultimate wabi design. The tea room from the time of Sotan was destroyed in the Great Fire of Tenmei in 1788 (Tenmei 8), and the current tea room is said to have been rebuilt immediately after that.

[Masaaki Nakamura]

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

京都市上京(かみぎょう)区の裏千家にあり、同家を代表する茶室。1646年（正保3）宗旦(そうたん)が隠居屋敷に造立した二畳の茶室で、1649年（慶安2）4月、宗旦の茶によばれた松屋久重(ひさしげ)が「隠居ノ二畳敷、但(ただし)、一畳半敷テ、残リハ板畳也(なり)、中柱有之(これあり)、但ヌキハ無之(これなく)候」と書き留めた茶室にあたる。中柱を立て、袖壁(そでかべ)をつけて向板(むこういた)を囲っていたというこの茶室は、明らかに現在の今日庵と同じである。点前(てまえ)畳の先に床(とこ)のかわりに向板を入れ、勝手の水屋棚を縮小したような水屋洞庫(どうこ)を付設して、種種な働きを二畳の空間に整然と集約している。向板について、川上不白(かわかみふはく)は「床も付られぬ佗(わび)の小座敷へ床の替りに御好なされ候」と述べていた。片流れの総屋根裏という天井の構成も、佗びの造形の極点を示す表現である。なお、宗旦時代の茶室は1788年（天明8）天明(てんめい)の大火によって焼失し、現在の茶室はその直後に再建されたといわれる。

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