The Japanese Teahouse

Title: The Japanese Teahouse “When I walked through the area with my eyes, the color of the lemon, which integrated without drawing attention the harmony of the contrasting colors, stood out with extreme purity. I had the impression that the dusty atmosphere of Maruzen was strangely tensed around my lemon. I stood there for a moment contemplating it. Suddenly something else occurred to me. A strange idea that disturbed me: the idea of leaving the lemon there as if nothing had happened. I felt especially encouraged by this thought. “Cuando recorrí el conjunto con la mirada, el color del limón, que integraba sin llamar la atención la armonía de los contrastados colores, se destacaba con extrema pureza. Tuve la impresión de que la atmósfera polvorienta de Maruzen se tensaba extrañamente alrededor de mi limón. Me quedé un momento contemplándolo. De pronto se me ocurrió otra cosa. Un idea extraña que me inquietó: la de dejar el limón allí e irme como si nada hubiese sucedido. Me sentí especialmente animado por esta ocurrencia.” “The tea room sukiya wants to be nothing more than a simple cottage, a Straw hut, as we call ir. The original characters for sukiya mean place of fantasy. Later, the various tea masters used various other signs that corresponded to their concept of the tea room, and sukiya can mean place of emptiness or place of asymmetry. It is a place of fantasy insofar as it is built to be a temporary home of poetic emotion. It is a place of emptiness inasmuch as it is without adornment, except for the few things needed to satisfy an instantaneous esthetic need. It is a place of the asymmetrical in that it is dedicated to the worship of the imperfect, leaving with intent something imperfect in order to be completed in the play of imagination”. “El salón de té Sukiya no quiere ser más que una simple casa de campo, una choza de paja, como la llamamos. Los personajes originales de Sukiya significan un lugar de fantasía.