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Japanese
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| 廣間 (kyūjitai)
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Pronunciation
Noun
広間 • (hiroma)
- parlor, salon, hall; a large room, especially one for meeting people
- ホテルの大広間 ― hoteru no ōhiroma ― a hotel’s great hall
- a formal room within a traditional Japanese house for entertaining guests
- a raised wooden floor in a traditional Japanese house
- (architecture, tea ceremony) a tea ceremony room larger than 4
+1⁄2 tatami mats
1983, Iguchi Kaisen, Sadō nyūmon [Introduction to tea ceremony], page 131:
- そして書院式茶室は、この広間の方に属する。小間の場合は、畳の数やその敷き方によって、三畳台目、二畳中板、 などの名称つけられる。
- Soshite Shoin-shiki chashitsu wa, kono hiroma no hō ni zoku suru. Koma no bāi wa, tatami no kazu ya sono shiki kata niyotte, sanjō daime, nijō nakaita, nado no meishō tsukerareru.
- The Shoin-style tea house is associated with this hiroma type. In the case of koma, they are given names based on the number of tatami and how they are laid out, such as sanjō daime, nijō nakaita and so on.
- (historical) entry hall in a samurai residence
Coordinate terms
- 座敷 (zashiki, “tatami-style room; room for entertaining guests”)
- (wooden floor): 土間 (doma, “recessed earthen floor”)
- (tea ceremony room): 小間 (koma, “tea ceremony room smaller than 4.5 tatami mats”)
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