house as part of art alcove.
tokonoma: special art alcove in the Japanese house, which was
originally derived from the shrine in Chinese monasteries.
Tomi-ko: wife of Ashikaga Yoshimasa.
Toshiro: thirteenth-century potter who visited China and brought
back important Chinese ceramics technology.
usucha: a thin tea served as part of the tea ceremony. wabi: aesthetic term meaning a sense of deliberate poverty and naturalness.
waka: thirty-one-syllable Japanese verse popularized in the Heian era.
waki: supporting actor in the No drama.
Yayoi: pre-Buddhist culture in Japan.