Editing Japanese tea ceremony (section)

==Venues==
{{Main|Chashitsu}}
[[File:Joan in Urakuen, Gomonsaki Inuyama Inuyama City 2023.jpg|thumb|[[Jo-an]] {{transliteration|ja|[[chashitsu]]}} ([[National Treasures of Japan|National Treasure]])]]

Japanese tea ceremonies are typically conducted in specially constructed spaces or rooms designed for the purpose of tea ceremony. While a purpose-built {{transliteration|ja|[[tatami]]}}-floored room is considered the ideal venue, any place where the necessary implements for the making and serving of the tea can be set out and where the host can make the tea in the presence of the seated guest(s) can be used as a venue for tea. For instance, a tea gathering can be held [[picnic]]-style in the outdoors, known as {{nihongo||野点|nodate}}. For this occasion a red [[parasol]] called {{nihongo||野点傘|nodatekasa}} is used. 

A purpose-built room designed for the {{transliteration|ja|wabi}} style of tea is called a {{transliteration|ja|[[chashitsu]]}}, and is ideally 4.5-{{transliteration|ja|tatami}} in floor area. A purpose-built {{transliteration|ja|chashitsu}} typically has a low ceiling, a hearth built into the floor, an alcove for hanging scrolls and placing other decorative objects, and separate entrances for host and guests. It also has an attached preparation area known as a {{transliteration|ja|[[mizuya]]}}.

A 4.5-mat room is considered standard, but smaller and larger rooms are also used. Building materials and decorations are deliberately simple and rustic in {{transliteration|ja|wabi}} style tea rooms. {{transliteration|ja|Chashitsu}} can also refer to free-standing buildings for tea. Known in English as tea houses, such structures may contain several tea rooms of different sizes and styles, dressing and waiting rooms, and other amenities, and be surrounded by a tea garden called a {{transliteration|ja|roji}}.