Kirizuma-style teahouse (chashitsu)
The 41/2 tatami-mat teahouse, with its kirizuma or ridge-roof style, overlooks a koi pond. The teahouse has an open veranda with posts fitted into granite rocks at the base. Posts and beams are Port Orford white cedar, and the roof has multi-layers of red cedar shingles with Japanese ceramic tiles at the ridge top.
Entrance Gate (mon)
The entrance gate is made of white cedar with a roof of red cedar layered shingles and Japanese ceramic tiles. The hand-cut scalloped motif in the doors gives a window-like effect.
Sheltered bench (machiai)
The sheltered bench, a place to pause before entering the teahouse, is framed with imported Japanese round posts (hinoki bashira). Its walls are surfaced with Japanese mud plaster. As with the gate, the roof is red cedar layered shingles with a ridge of Japanese ceramic tiles.
Bridge (hashi)
The bridge is constructed with white cedar. Japanese imported brass ornaments adorn the hand -cut railing posts.
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