「The early tea-room consisted merely of a portion of the ordinary drawing-room partitioned off by screens for the purpose of the tea-gathering.
The portion partitioned off was called the Kakoi(enclosure), a name still appllied to those tea-rooms which are built into a house and are not indipendent constructions.
The Sukia consists of the tea-room proper, desiggned to accommodate not more than five persons, number suggestive of the saying "more than the Graces and less than the Muses," an anteroom(midsuya) where the tea utensils are washed and arranged before being brought in, a portico(machiai) in which the guests wait until they receive the summons to enter the tea-room, and a garden path(the roji) which connects the machiai with the tea-room.」(From the Book of Tea-The Tea-Room, pp. 55-56, Charles E. Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vermont-Tokyo, Japan)
At present days, most of japanese may not understand The Sukia.
Because, modern japanese houses do not arrange such sorts of pace and/or room.
And it's quite rare to use such sorts of facilites at daily life of avarage japanese people.
Yet, I think they should understand the conveniences and rationality of the facilities.
The origin of The Sukia is based on the country and/or farmer's house.
I believe The Sukia has the glocal characteristics of Japanese house.
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