Okeiko-Glenn-2023-10-29

• Nakaoki
  • Most recent teaching for Gogyodana is to place futaoki down facing to the right, then hishaku facing to the right as well (they go together). But then when you take hishaku kamae and want to put the lid / chakin on the futaoki, you turn the futaoki to be parallel to your body so you can put the chakin parallel.
    • Ideally there is always a relationship between futaoki shomen, hishaku, and chakin. They should always face the same direction (and they do in furo normally - everything faces you naname as teishu).
    • However, the more usual teaching is to have futaoki facing R, then chakin facing naname. This solves that discrepancy.
  • When leaving hishaku after usucha in Oo-ita or Nagaita Hitotsuoki
    • Kamae, then move futaoki slightly R. It should end up still in the lower left corner relative to the kama, but just to the right of the tip of the handle.
    • Then place hishaku down directly onto the lacquer with R.
      • If you’re doing this while sitting centered on the Kama, it works just fine.
      • This is also what you do for gogyodana when you place it on top — it’s the same futaoki / hishaku positioning.
    • Note that this DIFFERENT from in regular hakobi furo if you need to leave the hishaku for some reason (eg you have a kaejawan to take back at the same time as the kensui). In that case, it’s:
      • Kamae, then move futaoki to the back L on tatami between wall and ita (q: how to do this best? r or l)
      • Then give hishaku to L and place down on futaoki along the wall
  • Current teaching is to place shifuku down with L on gogyodana (it goes to L side as usual for square Tana). But apparently it used to be with R, and this is Glenn’s preference.
    • Things you handle with R are right and center objects. Things you handle with L are left objects. So something being in the center still means it’s an R object.
    • Hishaku and futaoki go on top on that same position, and those are with R. So this could be R too.
    • Try it out.

Gyo no Gyo

• In his juuden class, they say that Te wo tsuite is only done on the kayoi-datami (ish). Meaning:
  • Teishu when placing dougu out still does Te wo tsuite.
  • Guests when moving dougu from temaeza to their spot uses Te wo tsuite.
  • However! Guests when moving dougu around their own space (out from inside, viewing, then back inside from after viewing), no need.
  • He does like to do it though at the end, when tsume starts moving dougu back onto the kayoi-datami to return it.

Daitenmoku

• We do need to go lower with our bodies sometimes, but it is not a “in Shikaden we must always be lower” kind of a thing. It is dependent on what you’re working with. If you’re purifying a wamono chaire, you don’t need to be lower.
• He didn’t comment, so it’s probably correct that you do refold the fukusa after purifying the dai and return it to its place below the kensui if you’re using the fukusa to open the lid.