In all [four] okuden, the kensui does not move! You place it immediately down where it will live, then you leave it there through the end of time.
After you wipe the chashaku from the karamono tea (yon-ICHI-rei-san), you have the fukusa in-hand and need to open the lid. In shikaden and below (ie bondate ro), you would hold fukusa in hasami, then take hishaku and open the lid. In okuden, you generally don’t hasande. Instead, you place the fukusa karioki by R knee, then take the hishaku separately, then take fukusa for the lid.
Note: you do still fukusa wo hasamu at the very beginning.
This temae is a notable exception to the rule of “always take the shifuku from the position you used to place it down.” In this, you turn to face mizusashi shomen after the guest asks for haiken. Then, you move the chawan + bon to himado-mae, then from this position, you take the shifuku.
I had a few clarifying questions: all are congruent with my earlier notes, but I’m writing here to be clear.
You DO momide before moving the karamono chaire to front center of bon when purifying for haiken. Even though it’s about to be purified, you still momide.
Flipping shifuku when opening the chaire, I had a thought that perhaps it’s an L/R thing instead of a wamono hi-no-hou thing. Nope, it is a hi-no-hou thing. This does mean that you flip different directions in furo vs in ro.
For the wamono chaire, after doubuki, you DO want to use your fukusa to support when bringing it down to the shifuku (ie, your R fingers should not touch the chaire itself. L holds, R supports via the fukusa). This is done by holding the fukusa as after doubuki, but just in your fingertips.
This is in STARK CONTRAST to wakin, where you just hold the fukusa nigiriconde and actually HOLD WITH R (like karamono) with L support.
Pushing down on the hishaku with thumb when placing down in ro is only for shin temae (daien no shin, shin no gyo). Gyo temae (gyo no gyo, daien no sou) are as usual for hakobi temae.
Related: tori-oki is only for shin temae. In ro, you just take the hishaku as usual for hakobi temae.
Other
He has this new shifuku thing where you put your index fingers inside the shifuku then pull the cord.
When returning [anything] to temaeza as a guest (deai, single guest, etc), you should first move your body to the knee line, then start moving dougu. This is symmetrical to taking dougu to your spot, where you bring the dougu to your knee line, then scoot back.
Clarified that the concept of taking dougu at different times varying by level is still true for chaji.
Konarai: teishu standing with kensui
Shikaden: standing with bowl
Okuden (all): standing with mizu
Normally this means standing with mizutsugi (in daisu), but for daien no sou, this means standing with mizusashi
Confirmed his opinion on sweets, that koicha sweets should never be served while tea is occurring. If possible, during a chakai etc, best to have a kashi seki. Next best is to serve okashi and wait until everybody has eaten until starting. Third best, which is really only an okeiko thing, is to have students hold off until kiyome finishes.