Okeiko-Glenn-2022-12-11

2022-12-11

Shin no Gyo

• (General: Chasen should be sitting purely on the chakin on senzara, not on the plate. This is true for kazari temae as well. To do this, push the chasen into the chakin a bit)

• Ro is actually rather different from furo. Furo is the “original,” and ro is clearly an alteration.

• Daisu starts as usual for hira-demae daisu in ro, but after moving the tenmokudai onto the ten-ita, then you do move things into midare on the ji-ita.

  • First, mizusashi goes laterally to the center. It will be tight!
  • Then, shakutate goes laterally to the right half to form a diagonal line from kensui → mizusashi → shakutate.
    • Two hands down (hibashi are in here after all), move shakutate just with R, then back to two hands down before sitting back up.
  • Then shittai 3x, exit backwards.

• Chasen always stays at senzara migi-kata. It never goes over to the right by the futaoki a la shikaden.

• Hishaku is always toribishaku when taking from the kama. Placing back down is tome-oki (video below). Key is to smoothly transition to the thumb overhand position while it’s being placed down, not as two separate movements. Consider the usual (non-okiro) situation: your thumb should be almost pressing the tip of the hishaku into the tatami.

• Before you take the hishaku out of the shakutate for the first time, from imai, you bring two hands down (no hibashi though, so no two hands on the return) and bring it forward. The new position should be such that the hishaku go is still entirely underneath the ten-ita, but as forward as possible.

  • Then from here, every time you take the hishaku, you just take it directly from imai. Still do the pull-pull and take from the front like pacman ghosts, but you do NOT need to turn all the way to daisu shomen to do this.
  • Likewise, after the final time you return the hishaku into the shakutate, you return it back to its rear position.

• Chaire + bon kiyome are done from daisu shomen, and bon goes to center giri giri to ji-ita on completion (versus furo, where it goes to the right to mizusashi shomen).

• After bon kiyome etc, tenmokudai comes down, and you turn with it to imai before placing it down.

• Every time you close the lid, you do “shin ni sou ari”, ie hold hishaku at the same time.

Overall ro temae skeleton:

• Nakadachi:
  • Move chaire to R, tenmokudai to L.
  • Move mizusashi to center, move shakutate to R to be in a diagonal.
  • Shittai out.
• Enter with senzara as before. Sorei at the door. Place down to himado-mae, shikko up. Take hibashi betsu-betsu from the shakutate in the upper-right corner. Senzara to upper left of knee line, in the corner.
  • NOTE: Hibashi don’t need to come around kensui. Entering and exiting from the front center of the ji-ita is sufficient.
• Bon + chaire comes down. Shifuku to L ten-ita front, kiyome in shin with fukusa opened for doubuki. Chaire to giri giri ten-ita front center with fukusa to L (instead of as zabuton underneath). Fold fukusa away from you to get back into shin fold. Kunibaki bon, place bon giri-giri to daisu front center. Koshi fukusa, momide, chaire to bon.
• Take tenmokudai, turn to imai. Kiyome chashaku in shin 3x → sou sabaki for fourth. Chashaku to bon, L of chaire. Fukusa to upper right knee (this is the karioki position).
• Open shin-musubi. Tie knot katatombo (ie the reversible one in chabako, one loop). Fold R over to L so opening is to L. With R, place to R front of ten-ita.
• Turn to daisu shomen, bring kensui giri giri to front. Take futaoki, turn to imai, place in its corner. Kobiki lid (close → ko wipe → open) and open, fukusa back to karioki. From imai, bring shakutate forward (no hibashi, so only 2h down at beginning not end), then pull-pull hishaku out.
• Half scoop, kosusui, empty into kensui on ji-ita, catch drip with R ring finger. Chawan to dai. Tori-bishaku (it will be this way any time you take the hishaku from the kama), half scoop oyu into chawan. Put hishaku directly back into shakutate, and close lid with fukusa. (Leave futaoki as-is on tatami).
• Chasen into chawan, kobukusa open at himado-mae, then chawan + chasen to himado-mae. Fukumi-bukusa and wipe dai as “hasami.” Refold into sou-sabaki and place fukusa back to karioki by R knee.
• Kobukusa + chawan + chasen all onto dai. Take then just chawan + chasen into hand, chasentoshi. Chasen to senzara no migikata on completion. Take chakin while there, pinch to R of chawan, empty into kensui. Wipe, tatamikae etc.
• Momide, take chaire and put lid to center of bon. Take chashaku, scoop. Leave chashaku otoshi-komi (like cereal spoon), return chaire. Zig-zag and 2x tap on finger. With chashaku in R nigiriconde, wipe chashaku before returning to bon (sou-sabaki 3x + 1x, taking bottom to wipe inside. No pom pom).
• Ko-biki, open kama. Fukusa to R of senzara (above knee line). Take hishaku from shakutate, suishaku (2x water). Put chasen in bowl. Move dai mukou, take kobukusa + chawan + chasen to temae, knead with L overhand. On finish, leave chasen on R side without nonoji. Whole thing back onto dai, dai back to temae, then finish nonoji here and leave chasen by senzara migikata. Turn, place out kantsuki, shittai and hikai.
• After fukukagen, turn back to imai. Hishaku kamae, close lid without fukusa while holding hishaku, hishaku into shakutate. Futaoki into L palm, turn to daisu shomen, futaoki to R of kensui. (this is different from the end.) Turn back to kyakutsuki (bisected by ro, not outside).
• After questions, turn back to daisu shomen. Futaoki to L palm, turn to imai, place out. Kobiki lid (returning fukusa to senzara migikata) and open. Hishaku into kama, koshi fukusa.
  • NO MIZUSASHI! We aren’t using it yet, so no need to open. We only use it for chasentoshi.
• Bowl + dai comes back. Take from kyakutsuki, turn to imai, down and sorei and questions. Add oyu, kosusui and empty with R (hiding green water) into kensui. Ichiyo oshimai. THEN open mizusashi 1h to front. Add mizu, hishaku back to kama. Chasen into bowl. Take bowl in hand, then close kobukusa from dai and return to kaichu. Chasentoshi, chasen back to senzara migikata. Empty bowl pinching chakin with R, wipe, tatamikae etc. Chasen back to senzara after tatamikae.
• Yubikiri 3x, put chawan back into shifuku. Tie nagao. Chawan + dai to himado-mae, then chashaku to hane.***
  • ***You always forget this! Don’t forget this!
• Hishaku kamae, close lid while holding. Hishaku back into shakutate from imai, then still from imai, move shakutate to rear position. Close mizusashi lid. (Futaoki still out). Guest asks for haiken for all items.
• Futaoki to palm, turn to daisu shomen, place to L of kensui (different from beginning) which is still forward. Take bon + chaire, turn to outside of ro. Open kobukusa to R side of bon, gyo-sabaki and wipe chaire. Then still with gyo sabaki untouched, kunibaki bon. Koshi fukusa. Momide, chaire to bon. Close kobukusa and move to L of bon. Turn bon hidari-mawari and place out to kantsuki.
• Kobukusa to L palm, turn to daisu shomen. Chashaku to kobukusa, turn out completely to outside ro, te wo suite and place out next to bon. Back to imai, take shifuku, turn out completely, place out next to bon.
• Back to daisu shomen, then the following:
  • Chawan to ten-ita
  • Senzara to himado-mae
  • Hibashi back betsu-betsu
  • Kensui to below knee line
  • Futaoki back to its original position
  • Senzara to R palm
  • Shittai with L hand on R knee
  • Take kensui in L, exit by backing out. At the door (with hands in shin), kensui is L and senzara is R.
    • Q: Is it this, or is one centered and the other is off center?
• Come back for chawan. Hold on hane both hands until standing. Still shikko → shittai.
• Come back with mizutsugi. Sit low, place mizutsugi centered. Shikko. Move mizutsugi to L (but still horizontal, it’s daisu after all). Open mizusashi 1h, add water, close mizusashi 1h. Return mizutsugi to center. Shittai, take mizutsugi, exit.
• Return with kensui. Sit low, kensui to center. Shikko. Futaoki into kensui, kensui back to its ORIGINAL home on the ji-ita. While here, fix midare. First shakutate laterally back to L, then mizusashi laterally back to R. Stand and turn around from temae, exit.
• Come back after haiken with shinnuri nakatsugi on hoshigami (folded in 4ths same style as kami-kamashiki, top right corner lower than top left corner) to ten-ita. Answer questions. (Dougu will be still kamiza-oriented)
• Bring bon heriuchi. Chashaku to bon (te wo suite through this), kobukusa to kaichuu. 2h holding sides, slide shifuku “under” chaire. Stand and exit
  • BIG POINT OF CONTENTION: Hold the chaire with R, or 2h on bon? it’s a mystery.

Other

• On taking water
  • For tenmokujawan:
    • First part of kiyome is always half scoop, half scoop.
    • Shimai is up to you. There’s no real rule on how much water you’re adding here. He always does a full scoop of mizu every time he uses mizu (so the second scoop is a full one), but the first scoop is up in the air. Personally, I feel like a full scoop is usually too much for kosusui to be effective.
  • For rakujawan:
    • Full scoop during initial kiyome, full scoop of mizu for chasentoshi. Middle scoops of oyu, up to you on how tea’d up the bowl is. No strong opinions in either direction.
• He was taught one sweet in the front, two in the back for kashibachi. I personally prefer two in the front (and he doesn’t have a problem with that)
• Useful sweets ingredients to pick up when in Japan
  • Kanbaiko
  • Domyojiko
  • Koori-mochi
  • Uguisu-ko
  • Warabi-ko
• Gotoku futaoki should be two in the front (as it is for gotoku IRL). But Daisosho feels like it should be one in the front, aka what all other futaoki with three legs are. So, generational differences.
  • Also, gotoku futaoki should only be used if there is no gotoku in the room.
• Tsutsujawan should not be used for koicha (it’s too tall, and would be difficult to knead).
  • Note: most of the tsutsujawan we see nowadays are han-tsutsu. There does exist a real (original?) tsutsu which is much taller and narrower.
  • The long chasen (gobo…? can’t remember the name) is canonically what should be used for tsutsujawan, but you don’t need to use it for han-tsutsu necessarily.
• His method of shibori is how he does all shibori.