July 4, 2021
Rando point: try a capful of vanilla in the Mizu-yokan.
Wakin
- Wakin is a “proper” shikaden temae.
- 3 sweets
- open the door in gyo (we had a discussion about whether or not it’s actually in gyo, but he does think it’s in gyo)
- te wo suite for placing out haiken dougu
- wakin goes out to kantsuki during haiken
- no abbreviations
- during ro, karamono no ichi for haiken
- which also means that daitenmoku must also be karamono no ichi!
- (maybe) Scooping tea, put the chashaku on the bowl first, THEN take nakatsugi.
- I’m not sure this one is right; I have the opposite in my notes from last time, and I think Kristina’s wakin seminar was the same way (ie take chashaku second).
- He was very clear about it this time, but I’m not sure it’s correct :\
- Turning the wakin for haiken is indeed what you expect (get your hands under the wakin like normal, THEN turn migi-mawari. For turning, you can hold your hands in a C shape. Some sensei teach to spin it on the floor.)
- POINTO - for chaire kazari during haiken, you place the chaire out, THEN take the fukusa. For wakin, you do the opposite (fukusa koshi first, then place out chaire).
- Why? Is this seriously just to be confusing / be different?
- At sadoguchi, everything sits in a line (no herisoto business). If the wakin wasn’t there, it would look just like a regular koicha temae.
Chawan Kazari
- Generally handle chawan with both hands, except for the very end when you put the bowl to katte. That is 3h, but without your left hand supporting.
- “This is like when you’re back in the mizuya and you’re just dealing with things with one hand to get them done. The show’s over, let’s wrap it up.”
- Turning with bowl to place out, R is holding bowl in C with thumb on top, not wrapped around. “You’re moving with the bowl, not drinking.”
- Turning the bowl is done on the floor when you place out for kyaku after making tea
- Take the chasen down! Only in usucha chawan kazari do you leave the chasen up until you need it. In all these other kazari, you take it down at the same time as when you would have taken it out of the bowl.
- Q: Emptying kensui, 2h?
- After placing the bowl out, shokyaku scoots back into hikae. Once the bowl has been brought heriuchi by the shokyaku, THEN you scoot back up.
- Kyaku:
- Shokyaku brings bowl back heriuchi to the left, always on the kobukusa. Sorei, then bring the combo back to heriuchi center.
- Turn the bowl on the floor, ie daitenmoku (leaving the kobukusa as-is, turn the bowl with 2h).
- Pick up bow, THEN kansha (with shomen facing away from you), then drink.
- Bowl goes back down, wipe, then turn back while on the floor.
- Pick up bowl + kobukusa, and pass the combo together to jikyaku.
- Q: Book says that then jikyaku “does the same thing.” What does that mean exactly? Do they place it down after it’s passed, turn it, pick it up, then kansha?
- Kyaku ask for goyuishho-wa while the bowl is in on the kobukusa in the dougu datami, before the host brings it heriuchi.