Abstract
Kaichiro USUI is a designer of modern tea rooms, and the some he designed for OKOCHI VILLA and Ichizo KOBAYASHI's SOKU-AN let us recognize importance in modern times. After World War II, he designed OMOTESENKE' branch office which is a base in Tokyo of OMOTESENKE, and enlarged OMOTESENKE residence in Kyoto. So he is also important as a Designer who present OMOTESENKE after the war. But, up to know, there has been no study about the whole life work of Kaichiro. The purpose of this paper is to settle the fundamental basements for the futures studies about him. In this study, by first piecing out Kaichiro's texts, plans, and interviews with someone who related to him, we want to make synthesis of his skill as a Sukiya-shi. By listing up his architecture, we understood the where it spread in the different regions, and the approximate proportion of the tea rooms in his all work.
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