The palette

Mixed stone (stone, andesite, cobblestone, tuff, mossy cobblestone) for the footing; stripped birch logs for the pale natural posts, smooth sandstone for the ochre earth walls, bamboo trapdoors on white wool for the lattice and round windows, birch trapdoors for the shoji; spruce planks and bamboo mosaic slabs for the floors, bamboo blocks for the veranda edge and the passage's posts; packed mud under mud brick stair lips for the thatch, stripped oak logs and oak stairs for its light cut edge, stripped dark oak and dark oak slabs, stairs and fences for the ridge and its crossed sticks; dark oak planks, stairs and slabs for the shingle roofs, gravel for the passage.

Techniques

• Pale posts and earth walls
• Small, varied openings
• A thatch roof cut thick
• Crossed sticks on the ridge
• A cluster of low roofs

The steps

1. Stone footing and the raised floors
2. Tea room: natural posts and beams
3. Tea room: earth walls, the crawl-in door, round and square windows
4. The alcove (tokonoma) jutting from the back
5. Veranda edged with green bamboo
6. Preparation room (mizuya): posts, shoji and earth walls
7. Pent of shingles over the crawl-in door
8. Tea room: thatch cut thick at the eaves
9. Tea room: dark ridge and its crossed sticks
10. Preparation room roof
11. Stepping stones and the covered passage
12. Waiting bench: posts, earth walls and the bench
13. Waiting bench: its little gable roof
14. Lanterns

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