outer teahouse garden
In traditional Japanese tea ceremony architecture, the outer garden of a teahouse, located outside the central gate (中門). Contrasts with 内露地 (uchiroji), the inner garden.
外露地には待合があり、客はここで身支度を整える。
In the outer teahouse garden there is a waiting arbor, where guests prepare themselves.
中門を境に外露地と内露地が分かれている。
The central gate separates the outer teahouse garden from the inner one.
Standard kanji spelling for the outer teahouse garden.
Variant spelling using 路 instead of 露; less common but attested.
Compound of 外 (soto, 'outside') and 露地 (roji, 'teahouse garden'). The reading そとろじ reflects the kun'yomi of 外 and the on'yomi of 露地.