- Dougu Positioning for haiken dougu:
- In general:
- A chuu-natsume lid should be almost exactly 5 mei in diameter.
- The edge of the chaki should be one chuu-natsume lid (5 mei) from the heri.
- For a chuu-natsume, that would put the natsume sitting on the 7/8-mei line.
- For large chaki (daikai chaire, hira-natsume), you should still position them relative to their edge, not their center. So putting a daikai chaire 5 mei from the heri will cause it to be on the 8/9-mei line center.
- The chashaku should be 1 mei from the heri.
- Note: kanazawa gyotei-sensei said that it should be 2 mei. Glenn has not heard this before.
- Chaire, chashaku, and shifuku should all be visually balanced.
- This means that you do not align the chashaku to the fushi, nor the shifuku to the center stitch.
- Moreover, if the chaki is large (e.g. daikai chaire), and the above 5-mei rule puts it farther away from the heri than usual, you should align the other objects to the chaire. This means that you may end up putting the chashaku 2 mei away, for example.
- Dougu should be spaced one chuu-natsume lid apart from each other (5 mei).
- Dougu should all fit within the ro (but this doesn’t always work).
- For 3 things:
- Chashaku should be centered in the middle of the ro, i.e. 7 sun from the edge.
- Chaire and shifuku should be balanced to the left/right of the chashaku, respectively.
- For 2 things:
- When placing out for the guest, chashaku should be in the same position as above, and natsume should be next to it.
- Glenn’s opinion:
- Most guests will return the chaki to the same position it was placed out in, but if you do that here, you end up with dougu off-center to your body.
- So, his preference is to return the dougu slightly to the side to make it centered on the teishu’s body.
- For 4+ things (ie Tsuzuki Usucha):
- In order to fit everything inside the ro, you may need to squish things a little. That’s fine.
- Bondate
- Yes you do take the fukusa with R (chashaku nigiriconde) when you take to wipe after scooping tea.
- Daien no Shin
- Amend my notes: indeed you do need to un-turn the chawan in the shifuku after opening it (and return it to the original position) before taking it in your hand. In prior notes, Glenn mentioned that you should take directly without un-turning. (This would be inconsistent with Shin no Gyo, because there, you must un-turn it to return the dai to its original position).
- He is convinced that it is just douzo o-bon-chuu for haiken, but in Daien no Sou, we ask douzo o-bon-chuu, o-shifuku. He’s going to look. I’m still leaning toward asking about the shifuku.
- Taking the chashaku (also true for Bondate, probably all trays): there is an inconsistency where sometimes you pinch from sides, sometimes you take from top. He pointed out: when you’re placing down, it’s pinch from sides. When you’re picking up, you take from top. I need to think through how true this is generally, but yeah! I like this.
- Indeed, you can stand “normally” after you have returned the kensui at the end.