Bondate
- Bon is turned MIGI-MAWARI. Always!
- Prior notes have this as hidari-mawari, but we confirmed that whether or not there is something on the bon (including karamono chaire that is usually turned hidari-mawari), you turn this migi-mawari.
- He is not sure about the general rule here. “Maybe it depends on karamono vs wamono, but people don’t seem to be clear on this point.”
- Best to just remember as migi-mawari, then if you come to a point where you have a karamono bon, ask again.
- Ending haiken sequence (back and forth and back and forth) is a little bizarre, but it does come from somewhere! One of the juuden has this exactly.
- Kyaku notes, moving with the dougu for haiken. In the spirit of trying to touch the dougu as little as possible, if we are doing ikkyaku ittei for this example (ie guest is sitting directly opposite host on kyaku-datami):
- Momide, chaire onto bon, then all three things move toward you once.
- You scoot back to the knee line. At this point, rather than bring all three things to the knee line, bring the chaire+bon directly to kamiza herisoto. Then, chashaku and shifuku can come to the knee line as usual, but now centered as there’s no bon in the way.
- His take: moving the bon less is good. Also, with the bon in front of you, that puts the shifuku way far away when you try to take it with R.
- On returning, there isn’t a way to shortcut it:
- Chaire+bon to knee line, chashaku + shifuku as well
- Move everything 1x
- Turn chaire+bon MIGI-MAWARI on the floor, place to its home
- Then chashaku + shifuku
- Then momide and place chaire to kantsuki (without turning, as it’s already turned)
Daien no Shin
- Don’t forgot to close the kama when doing chawan kiyome, damnit
- At the end, kobukusa goes to kaichuu when you put the chawan+dai onto the ten-ita, before you do hibashi.
- Haiken, guests specifically ask “Douzo o-bon chuu wo.” NOT “o-bon chuu, o-shifuku wo”.
- We verified this one explicitly. In Glenn-sensei’s notes, he has:
- Daien no shin furo + ro are this way (bon-chuu only)
- Daien no sou furo + ro are with both (bon-chuu and shifuku)
- Confusing. I have no idea why you do this .
- We verified this one explicitly. In Glenn-sensei’s notes, he has:
Walking:
- We went over how to walk in yojohan when giving fuchidaka. Videos linked for two scenarios: one if guest is on kinin-datami, one if guest is on kyaku-datami.
- Salient points:
- Yojohan, you cross along the half-way point of the fumikomi hanjo, not at the corner.
- You do NOT need to face the guests directly when you give them sweets.
- For far guest:
- Sit on the ro tatami, give them sweets.
- Scoot back a tad, then stand and exit that tatami like daime by backing out. This puts you at a good position to turn to the fumikomi hanjo, and it avoids putting your back to guests.
- (An alternative is to put your heel back to turn around in-place, but he doesn’t like that it puts your foot right where the haiken dougu will go).
- For nearer guest:
- Sit on a diagonal just before the heri, so your shins end up on top of the heri and you are loosely pointing toward the guest. Give them sweets.
- Turn to the left a bit, then stand. L heel goes back, then R to the imaginary hanjo line, etc.
Chaji:
- While drinking koicha, you ask “chamei wa, tsume wa, okashi no gomei wa, gosei wa”. But you also ask other things, as you know:
- Fuchidaka
- Dora
- Hana
- Hanaire
- The way to remember the ordering: besides the tea and sweets, which are set, you ask in the order you saw the thing. Fuchidaka came first, then you left and heard the dora to come back, then you came in and saw the hana and hanaire.
- Q: What do you ask during the sho-iri exactly?