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context: tea ceremony > implements & settings
Architecture and Gardens
Tea rooms were first simply smallish rooms set aside in castles and palaces. Later, special tea huts were built in specially designed gardens. The huts were small and simple, usually rustic in appearance, wood and paper, in muted colours. Rikyu introduced what is called the nigiri-guchi, a waist-high wriggle-in opening, which was designed to induce humility.