抄録
There are many kinds of style in Japanese tea house, “Soan” / “Shoin”, “Rikyu” / “Samurai” / “Noble” and tea masters' preferences. The purpose of this research is to discuss the criteria of classification of tea house's style by studying the typological structure of the morphological composition of tea house derived from the multivariate analyses of qualitative data: presence or absence about 40 elements of 63 examples of tea house in 16-20th century.
The result supports some of knowledge of historical knowledge and discusses new different tendencies of the morphological composition between the styles.
