November 22, 2020
Bondate
According to Kitamura Tokusai, male fukusa official urasenke standard color is purple (yes), but women’s is red (not orange).
- The women of the Sen family wear orange, and people often point to that as a reason that they should be able to wear orange.
- But, the only reason that they wear orange is because Yuko only makes two colors, orange and purple. And, they’re required to wear orange.
- Nowadays, books have orange and red both as official standard options. But the actual standard is purple/red. Orange is just an addition. (Confirmed by gyoteibu).
- PLACEHOLDER: Ask sensei for the list of acceptable equipment/timelines (for shikaden + gyo no gyo).
- Temae:
- (Honestly I’m writing this pretty far after the fact, like 3 hours ish, so this is going to be a lot lighter than usual). I had 3 main questions going into this though
- In the middle of temae, when you’re about to kiyome the chashaku after scooping tea, the fukusa is on the tatami (at least it is if you used it to open the kama lid). This should be taken with the RIGHT hand, ie take chashaku with R, then take fukusa also with R.
- This does mean that you will cross your body with your arm.
- You should also do this (cross your body with your arm) if you used fukusa to open the lid in general, and you forgot to koshi your fukusa after guests drank, and you need to wipe chashaku
- During haiken, when putting out chaire and needing to turn on zabuton:
- Turn once on zabuton (hidari-mawari)
- The second turn, turn at the same time as you’re going out to kantsuki. Your left thumb does need to stay on top while turning. When you get to the end, out to kantsuki, just try to naturally rehold the zabuton and pull it out from under the chaire
- During shimai (re: pulling kensui):
- Chashaku goes directly onto the bowl, because it was already kiyometa
- Bowl goes back to honjimae (ie karioki)
- THEN while your hand is already there, pull the kensui back
- Beginning, you DO have to close the door behind you when you enter with the bowl!!!
- When taking the chaire out of the shifuku, we usually do a “spiritual support” with L on the way down. However, with karamono, you’re actually using the shifuku to support. So, you’re still pressing from the side with L, except you’re just doing it now with the shifuku in the middle.
- Style thing, but when turning from kyakutsuki to imai after putting out the chaire, when you’re about to kiyome the bon, just try to hold the (currently-gyo-sabaki) fukusa nicely in L. Not necessarly nigiriconde. If you do that, it looks like you’re holding it in your fist.
- Unrelated, gyakugatte haiken positioning is backwards because of the GUEST’s perspective. Think about where the guest is going to be when you’re placing things out. If you do the opposite, it’s uncomfortable.
- Tokiwaburo (mayu tetsuburo on a lacquer board with the red waves on it) is a special case instance of using tetsu on nuri. In general, you do NOT put tetsu on nuri. Interestingly, tokiwaburo was only created for OKEIKO. Making it mayuburo makes it usable for higher temae as well (more flexible), and using a lacquer board makes it also flexible.
- This was created by… gengensai iirc. And at this time, if you didn’t have a nuributa on the mizusashi, you actually put the chakin on the shikiita! But then the shikiita had to be nuri.
- So, the implication here is that you needed either nuributa or nuri shikiita, no exceptions.
- No-no-ji, try to remember to start at more like 7:30 than 6. Remember, の doesn’t go straight down at the beginning.
- If a chawan has a mei, it’s [generally] acceptable to ask who gave it that mei. This will typically be written on the hakogaki.