TEA GARDEN, IKEGAMI 
openings often assume very quaint outlines. 
Some, for example, are seen in the form of 
mountains, others in the form of gourds 
with the frame of the window representing a 
grape vine. 
Outdoor tea-rooms are popular for cere-, 
monial tea-parties. So highly do the Japan¬ 
ese regard this ceremony that these little 
isolated houses are very carefully arranged 
with a ro or fireplace in the floor and a quaint 
recess or tokonoma in which a picture may 
hang at the time of the party, to be replaced 
at a certain period of the ceremony by a 
hanging basket of flowers. The ro, or hearth, 
is in a depressed area of the floor deep enough 
to hold a considerable amount of ashes and 
the tripod on which the kettle rests. 
These summer-house tea-rooms are fre¬ 
quently enclosed by rough bark or log walls 
in the elaborate rustic effect, and their con¬ 
struction has been closely followed in many 
of the summer-houses in our own country. 
The log cabin type is effective when used 
with small octagon or circular windows. One 
of our illustrations shows a summer-house 
at Riverton, Maine, with rough bark walls 
and rough trimmings of rustic logs and 
diamond-shaped windows. The other types 
shown are coming into common use and are 
obviously modeled after the Japanese idea. 
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