April 18, 2021
Gyo no Gyo → Kengaku
Dougu
- Seto hitoeguchi mizusashi
- Hibashi with rotational symmetry (no birds)
- Hoya-san futaoki
- Sashitoshi hishaku
- Gyo (motobushi) chashaku
- Tenmokujawan on shinnuri dai
- Karamono chaire
- Karakane efugo kensui
- Hakkei bon
- Gyo takedaisu
General notes:
- Imai position is halfway between the corner of the ro and the corner of the daisu (projected onto the tatami line). Knee line is still in the usual place, just angle changes.
Temae
- Before temae starts:
- Chaire in shifuku is on the center of the hakkei bon, which is on the center of the ten-ita
- Mizusashi is on the right, shakutate and kensui are on the left on the ji-ita
- After sho-iri:
- Teishu comes in with tenmokujawan (with chasen, chakin, chashaku as usual) and sits in front of daisu
- Q: Is the tenmokujawan mannaka, or is it to the side?
- Teishu moves dougu onto the hakkei bon in-place, in this order:
- Chaire goes to thunder (3:00)
- Chashaku goes to wind (4:30)
- Chakin is wet, so it goes to fire (6:00)
- Chasen goes on top of chakin, a la sen-zara
- Tenmokujawan + dai goes to swamp/lake (9:00)
- Teishu moves ji-ita equipment into midare (“disorder, disturbance, unrest, etc”), ie breaks the symmetry
- Shakutate moves from its home by the kensui laterally to the middle, ie where it would be in furo
- NOTE (with an ???): I think this movement is how you would usually handle hishaku, ie come down to <shin/gyo/so>, then move shakutate with R only, then come up immediately (rather than returning to bow)
- Now that ji-ita is in midare, teishu does shittai, stands with left, then backs out of the temaedatami, crossing the heri with right
- NOTE: Any time the ji-ita is in midare, you must always shittai/shikko, and you back out of temaedatami
- Teishu comes in with tenmokujawan (with chasen, chakin, chashaku as usual) and sits in front of daisu
- Start of temae:
- Everything is there, come in with nothing. No aisatsu/sorei.
- Walk up to temaeza, sit low, then shikko up to knee line
- Follow the mnemonic “ue, shita, ue ue shita”
- Ue: First, move the hakkei bon forward on the ten-ita, just one scoot
- Shita: Next, take out the hibashi and place on side of daisu as usual.
- Ue: Next, take chaire down and place CENTER
- Q: Is it chaire first, or is it chawan first?
- Ue: Next, take chawan down and place LEFT OF CENTER.
- Q: Is it himado-mae, or is it just left of chaire?
- Shita: Finally, take kensui and place DIRECTLY to its home, ie bisected by the knee line. Taking it will come over the chawan.
- Take hoyasan out, turn to imai, place out, sorei.
- Kensui is already in its home; do nothing with it.
- Kiyome
- Bring chawan and chaire to temae as in usual hakobi temae.
- Remove shifuku from chaire as in karamono, and place on the daisu.
- Daisu ten-ita is divided into 8 parts: in, yo, in, yo, in, yo, in, yo.
- Shifuku is in, so place it into a yo slot.
- NOTE: Shimura-sensei says that the ten-ita isn’t split into in/yo, but rather it’s the 8 trigrams from the hakkei. Stew over that one, why don’t you.
- Shin-sabaki and wipe karamono as usual, doing zabuton etc.
- Place chaire in the center front of daisu (ie where it would go in a daisu koicha hirademae when it’s still in shifuku).
- Refold in sou-sabaki, take chashaku from hakkei bon, and wipe 3x, including fukimodoshi.
- Q: Are you holding the chashaku during the first sou-sabaki, or do you take after the sabaki?
- Push-pull-pull, then flip and take fukusa from the BOTTOM.
- This will flip the fukusa so you are wiping from the other side.
- Q: Did you take fukusa from the bottom earlier? Or is this the first time you took it from the bottom?
- Refold in sou-sabaki and wipe one more time. Place nagashi-tate on the chaire like in karamono.
- Place fukusa karioki by R knee, open hoya-san, then open kama no futa. Return fukusa back to karioki R.
- Turn to daisu shomen and take hishaku as usual.
- Both hands down, then take hishaku (go exiting first, tip of handle exiting last), then everything up without re-bowing
- At this point, do proper kamae as well
- Turn back to imai, pour half-scoop of oyu into the tenmokujawan as in daitenmoku (L supporting)
- Q: Hishaku stays here, right? Because we’ll need it in a moment.
- Kosusugi 3x, empty into kensui and catch drip with R ring finger
- Return chawan back onto dai
- Add the second half-scoop of oyu into chawan, place chasen into chawan, then MOVE CHAWAN ONTO THE JI-ITA TO HIMADO-MAE
- WILD
- Q: Do you turn your body to do this, or do you do it from imai? I think you must turn
- Q: You also must close the kama ie nakabuta here, and return the hishaku to the shakutate. This takes precedence over the chasen, right? So is the order:
- Scoop oyu
- Turn to daisu, return hishaku to shakutate
- Turn back to imai, close lid, close hoyasan
- Take chasen from bon, place into chawan
- Place chawan on ji-ita?
- 2024-04-08: yes this is correct (I think)
- Kiyome with dai as usual for tenmokujawan. Shin-sabaki, wipe, return dai to center.
- Q: Is the fukusa backwards at this point?
- Take chawan + chasen and do air-chasentoshi as usual for daitenmoku. On finish, place chasen to the right of the ro (ie shikaden position)
- Empty chawan, catch drip with chakin, place back on dai.
- Tatami-kae chakin (ie refold, flipping so the other side is now in the front)
- Return chakin to hakkei bon
- Q: Yes?
- Making tea
- Take chashaku and place on HANE on R
- Momide, take chaire and place lid (flipped) on hane in FRONT
- Scoop tea (sukuidashi)
- Q: When you’re done scooping tea, does chashaku go back to the hane, or onto the bowl? Hane right?
- Close chaire lid, return to its home
- Zig-zag chashaku and tap inside ie tenmokujawan. Return chashaku to its home nagashi-tate, no wipe yet.
- Open hoyasan, open kama no futa, turn with fukusa on palm, place fukusa to kensui no migi-kata (ish?)
- Take hishaku, turn back, make tea as usual (chasen goes to kensui no migi kata on completion)
- Take dai, turn to kyakutsuki
- Q: Are you completely out of the ro here, or is this at usual kyakutsuki?
- Turn dai, place out (kantsuki?), shittai, hikai
- (Guest drinks as usual for daitenmoku)
- First sip, ofukukagen etc.
- Turn back to imai. Take hishaku, return to shakutate. Close lid (no fukusa!), close hoyasan, take hoyasan back with you to daisu shomen and place in its home (same place as daisu hirademae).
- Turn back out to kyakutsuki
- Q: Again, completely outside of the ro?
- Answer questions
- Tea is as usual
- Sweets are usually something like “kazu kazu no okashi… tasty blah blah”
- Usually guests will ask one-by-one about the okashi. Do not ask about “sore zore no okashi…“.
- Gyo no gyo has five sweets. In order:
- Omogashi (often manju, something high-ranking)
- Seasonal (chakin shibori, etc)
- Kinton (may have kinton/seasonal flipped)
- Saumono (sliced okashi, ie youkan)
- Fruit
- Suikiri, turn back and start opening things back up as usual.
- First take hoyasan back to imai, open and place down. Using fukusa, open kama no futa lid.
- Keeping fukusa on palm, turn to daisu, place fukusa down, then take hishaku. Turn back, hishaku down.
- Mizusashi lid is opened into GYO POSITION!!!!!
- 3H as usual, except it goes to 4:30 on the mizusashi.
- Scoop cold water.
- Shimai
- Turn to kyakutsuki to get bowl, bring back to imai.
- Sorei, questions etc.
- Ochawan no go-denrai wa?
- Oyu, empty, catch drip with R ring finger. Return chawan to dai, and oshimai itashimasu.
- Add cold water, sara sara + chasentoshi same as usual tenmoku.
- Q: This is in the air, right?
- Empty, catch drip with chakin, rewipe, then tatami-kae (refold inside-out) chakin. Chakin stays IN THE BOWL!
- Chasen goes in bowl.
- Pick up chashaku, then take fukusa and sou-sabaki. Note that you do NOT move the kensui.
- Q: This is from the bottom?
- Wipe 3x, then fuki modoshi. Do NOT pom-pom. Instead, take fukusa from the bottom (for sure) and refold, then wipe one more time.
- Chashaku goes down onto bowl, fukusa goes to koshi without pom-pom.
- Leaving the chaire where it is in the center, bowl goes back to its home to the left of the chaire.
- Add cold water, close shop as usual.
- Haiken
- After lid is closed, guest asks for karamono no haiken only.
- Take hoyasan, turn to imai, return hoyasan to its home on ji-ita.
- Return hibashi to shakutate.
- Q: I think you do that here; is that correct? I feel like I’m getting confused with regular daisu.
- Momide, take karamono, then turn all the way out to kyakutsuki outside the ro.
- Kiyome chaire as usual for karamono, placing out to kantsuki.
- Note: EVERYTHING goes to kantsuki. Shifuku still overlaps chashaku.
- After fukusa koshi at kyakutsuki, kyaku asks for chashaku and shifuku haiken.
- Turn all the way back to daisu shomen, take chashaku, then turn all the way back to kyakutsuki and place down.
- Turn to imai (not daisu shomen), take shifuku, turn to kyakutsuki, place out.
- Exiting the room
- Turn back to daisu shomen and shittai (you’re still in midare)
- Take kensui, stand with L, then exit by crossing the temaedatami heri with R.
- Come back in the room with shikko. Place dai on hakkeibon, then take the whole thing out (midare, so shittai + back out).
- Q: I know I missed something here. I think there’s a pull-pull on the hakkeibon here, but that means there must have been a corresponding push at some point. When would that have been?
- Big Q: When do you fix the midare?
- Come back with mizutsugi, come back with kensui + return to daisu, then leave for real
- Return with natsume (placing on daisu), answer questions.
- NOTE: Chaire stays KAMIZA, not LEFT/RIGHT.
- Momide, then place shifuku on L. Chaire sits on top of L like buddha, and chashaku is held nigiriconde in R with the tsuyu over the head of the chaire (R holding chaire).
- Q: L thumb is on kata right?