「The name, Abode of Fancy, implies a structure created to meet some individual artistic requirement.
The tea-room is made for the tea-master, not the tea-master for the tea-room.
It is not intended for posterity and is therefore ephemeral.
The idea that everyone should have a house of his own is based on an ancient custom of the Japanese race, Shinto superstition ordering that every dwelling should be evacuated on the death of its chief occupant.
Perhaps there may have been some unrealised sanitary reason for this practice.
Another early custom was that a newly built house should be provided for each couple that married.
It is account of such customs that we find the Imperial capitals so frequently removed from one site to another in ancient days.
The rebuilding every twenty years of Ise Temple, the supreme shine of the Sun-Goddeass, is an exanple of one of these ancient rites which still obtain at the present day.
The observance of these customs was only possible with some such form of construction as that furnished by our system of wooden architecture, easily pulled down, easily built up.
A more lasting style, employing brick and stone, would have rendered migrations impracticable, as indeed they became when the more stable and massive wooden construction of China was adopted by us after the Nara period.」(From thr Book of Tea-the Tea-Room, pp.65-66, Charles E. Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vermont, Tokyo, Japan)
Essential spiritual mind of the way of tea is individualism and very personal.
Yet, I think the mind was changed to "fall into the habit of learning the process of the way of tea without philosophical search.
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