Morokazari
- When you have all three (jiku, kogo and kamikamashiki, hana) in the Tokonoma (Tokonoma Setup), the arrangement should be as follows:
- Jiku maki-o on the geza side
- Hanaire on the geza half
- Kogo on the kamiza half, with the Kamikamashiki folded edge facing to the center of the tokonoma
- This means that in a Hon-doko you have:
- Maki-o on the left
- Flower on the left
- Kogo on the right, with kami-kamashiki smooth edge facing left
- And in a Geza-doko you have:
- Maki-o on the right
- Flower on the right
- Kogo on the left, with kami-kamashiki smooth edge facing left
Other random notes:
- Tana placement:
- In ro, if the tana is wider than half the tatami space, you place the dougu in front of the tana a la daisu.
- Otherwise, if it is a “normal” tana, the chaki and chasen are placed along the line formed from the corner of the tana to the corner of the robuchi (not mizusashi to kama).
- In a hachijo:
- Kinin is sitting in the center of the kinindatami in front of the tokonoma.
- Dougu atsukai is generally done on the right kayoi-datami, with dougu return on the left kayoi-datami.
- In a yojohan:
- For kinin, they should still be sitting in the center of the kinindatami on the seam between the two tatami in front of them.
- Dougu atsukai could be left/right as in hachijo, but it makes less sense. To be more yojohan-idiomatic, it’s nicer to just have the guest do all dougu atsukai on the right.
- Otherwise, kinin job is mostly the same. (This changes slightly for kinin kiyotsugu).
- Okashi things:
- For both omogashi and higashi, they should be prepared on kaishi. (NOTE: We did not talk about if you prepare kaishi for fuchidaka… but I assume you do?)
- [?] TODO Do you do the kaishi thing inside the fuchidaka for kinindate too, or is that only for takatsuki? ➕ 2023-12-03
- He uses two pieces of kaishi, keeping them in their original shape but folding the near right corner slightly askew and down. On the right side, right corner should be below left corner.
- The opposite, right above left, is used for funerals. (Not sure in which context though).
- He has never heard of the triangle thing.
- Omogashi should be in the fuchidaka with legs. Higashi should be on takatsuki.
- (But plenty of people use takatsuki for both).
- (It’s also legal to use regular fuchidaka).
- Omogashi should be brought in before temae starts. (If you’re going to do it during temae, just do what makes sense to you). Remember, chaji style.
- Higashi are brought in after tabakobon, then hanto may take them out after oshimai aisatsu.
- Taking omogashi:
- Usually, the kuromoji is sitting on top of the kaishi with the omogashi on as well.
- The way people usually teach:
- Take the entire thing, kaishi and kuromoji and all, and place it directly on your kaishi.
- His preference:
- Take kuromoji first and lay horizontal on your kaishi.
- Take the kaishi and okashi, place it on your kaishi.
- Then, slide the kuromoji out from under the kaishi.
- Taking higashi:
- You do not take it all at once. Usually, he puts out enough higashi for two bowls of tea.
- (And if you are going to do two kinds of sweets, you should only take one kind each time if you are going to have two bowls)
- At no point during higashi do you take the provided kaishi / hoshogami and place it on your kaishi.
- You do not take it all at once. Usually, he puts out enough higashi for two bowls of tea.
- For both omogashi and higashi, they should be prepared on kaishi. (NOTE: We did not talk about if you prepare kaishi for fuchidaka… but I assume you do?)
- Drinking usucha:
- (Written as for hachijo, but omit the L/R swap for yojohan).
- How we did it:
- Without kansha’ing the dai (it’s not tenmokujawan), bring the dai heriuchi center.
- Otemae chodai itashimasu to the host with bowl right in front of you.
- Take the bowl (2h atsukai), kansha, turn, drink.
- On finish, wipe where your lips touched with your fingers (as usual for hirademae usucha).
- Return the bowl (2h atsukai) directly down to the dai.
- Move the dai to herisoto R.
- View the whole thing, then look just at the bowl. Return the bowl back to the dai.
- Turn the bowl (migi-mawari! it’s not tenmokujawan) while herisoto R, then move it to herisoto L.
- Alternate:
- In the white books, it says to put the bowl to heriuchi R instead of center, but everything else is the same as above.
- This is kinda nice, as it gives you more space for the otemae chodai bow.
- Drinking koicha:
- (Written as for hachijo, but omit the L/R swap for yojohan).
- How we did it is the only way that makes sense to me. The other way is to leave a sip in the bowl, have the conversation, then finish the sip after the conversation, but then it’s like drinking concrete.
- The steps:
- Bring the dai heriuchi in front of R knee.
- Take the bowl (2h atsukai), kansha, turn, drink.
- (Holding is as usual for wamono, not like tenmokujawan even if it is in a tenmoku shape)
- Ofukukagen, place L hand down as usual for wamono to answer.
- Finish drinking, suikiri, then place down to heriuchi L (leaving space in front of you).
- Ask questions.
- Bring bowl to heriuchi center, wipe. Place into hand, then turn the bowl back in your hand, then place on dai. Then, dai to herisoto R.
- View the bowl etc same as in usucha above.
- Haiken for Kinindate Usucha
- Usuchaki and chashaku (on fukusa) are placed in front of you herisoto R.
- As soon as they are placed out, bring them heriuchi.
- First natsume on its own.
- Then, take the combo of chashaku + fukusa and place in L. Place chashaku down, then place fukusa down separated.
- Once host exits, view natsume as usual for hirademae, then view chashaku as usual for hirademae. Then, directly place fukusa from R to L (no pause / viewing in the center or anything).
- Then, place dougu out one-by-one to herisoto L, with fukusa separated from chashaku.
- Haiken for Kinindate Koicha
- Basically the same as for usucha, except with shifuku. i.e. you bring in chaire, then you take the pair of chashaku + shifuku, then separate them as you place them down heriuchi.
- Tabakobon + higashiki:
- It’s a little mendokusai no matter how you do it, whether furo or ro or whether yojohan or hachijo.
- In ro:
- There is enough room to place the tabakobon to the right, up against the ro.
- Alternately, you can place it heriuchi “behind” the ro.
- Then, when you’re doing the higashiki, it would need to go herisoto to the left while still “in use”.
- It could also go heriuchi next to the tabakobon if you put that there, closer to you with tabakobon on the outside.
- Once tea is done, you can place the higashiki out for retrieval by the hanto to make space.
- Or you could place tabakobon herisoto against the ro, turned like usual for chaji, with the higashiki below it (herisoto).
- Or you could have both items heriuchi, with the tabakobon turned.
- In all cases, it’s a little fussy, and it may be better to omit the tabakobon. His thoughts:
- Tabakobon is usually used after tea, where guests smoke after they’ve had their bowl of tea and while other guests are drinking theirs. In the kinin scenario, there’s no opportunity to smoke, so it’s less necessary.
- There is enough room to place the tabakobon to the right, up against the ro.
- In furo:
- You have both more and less space. Clearly more space because of the lack of a ro, but less space because your haiken dougu is going to go where the ro was.
- You cannot put the tabakobon herisoto R anymore, because that is where the dougu will go. So your only option is to put it heriuchi R, following the same rules as in the ro section above for heriuchi.
Kinin Hanto Procedures
- General notes:
- Hanto should be reaching rather far to do things. This is in contrast to using the scooting to get closer / farther as needed — you still need to scoot, but even when you get “close”, you should still be far.
- When you move dougu between the dougu no teiza and the kinin, you should move it without moving your body, i.e.:
- Sit facing the dougu.
- Without turning, move the dougu to the other side of the ro, closer to the kinin.
- Then turn your body.
- Then place the dougu out for the kinin.
- Whenever you interact with the kinin as hanto, you should ichirei from far away. For example:
- After placing the dougu out for the kinin, scoot back 2x, then ichirei.
- Or, sitting and about to take something: sit far away, then ichirei, then scoot forward 2x to take.
- The way we sit now in hikae is usually with hands directly at our sides, but earlier teaching (his original) was to have hands parallel with the knee. More like a runner’s block setup.
- On entering:
- The standard way to do it is to:
- Wait for teishu to drop the hishaku and sorei
- Then open the door, shitsurei and bow, nijiru in and close the door (all in nijiru).
- His way to do it is:
- Wait for the same moment.
- Then from behind the door, say shitsurei. THEN open the door, bow, and enter (all in nijiru).
- His thinking is that it’s less startling to announce what you’re going to do first before you actually do it.
- The standard way to do it is to:
- Yojohan-specific notes:
- In most cases, you don’t really need to stand. Specifically:
- When you’re going from the fumikomi-datami to take dougu etc, it makes sense to stand.
- After you’ve given the haiken to the kinin, scooted back and ichirei’d, it doesn’t make sense to stand. Just scoot backwards.
- Same goes for when you’re retrieving the haikenbutsu.
- Note that the scoot backwards here shouldn’t be like Shittai, shikko — it should be a full-on, whole-body scoot.
- When interacting with the dougu no teiza, not even the kinin, you should still be far away.
- The thought process is that yojohan is rather small, and you don’t want to give a crowded feeling.
- So even when you’re just putting dougu back for haiken, you should still be somewhat far away to give the feeling of space.
- Specific walking patterns etc:
- Bringing the bowl to the kinin:
- Stand from your spot in the corner. Walk around a bit so you are at somewhat of a diagonal, facing the bowl.
- Move the bowl to R to be closer to the kinin, then turn your body.
- Turn the bowl, place out for kinin (far away).
- Shikko 2x, ichirei.
- WALKING:
- Stand with L, then L goes back slightly.
- R goes up to the imaginary line.
- L crosses the line and begins the turn, meaning L goes forward and slightly points toward the teishu.
- R finishes the turn, with R heel going to the fumikomi corner.
- Then you sit.
- (Note: This is a lot of movement, so we need to figure out what works best for us. In kyoma tatami, this might actually all be too far).
- Taking the bowl from the kinin:
- Stand and walk to where you need to be. Ichirei, then shittai 2x.
- Do all the same as above but in reverse.
- Standing and walking to your spot is the same as described above.
- Bringing the haikenbutsu to the kinin:
- Same movements as bringing the bowl to them.
- Only difference is that at the end, just scoot back (nijiru, not shikko) to your spot and wait there rather than standing.
- Returning the haikenbutsu from the kinin and exiting:
- Scoot forward, not stand. Ichirei, then scoot 2x and take dougu.
- (For me, I had to do this in two split movements. Not just move once, then put it back to teiza. It felt too far. So I brought it to me first, then I moved it close to teiza, then I turned them and returned them to teiza).
- From here, stand and sit back down in the fumikomi-datami.
- Open the door, scoot through the door, turn around, and ichirei.
- Close the door, with teishu coming out immediately after to not leave the kinin alone for too long.
- Scoot forward, not stand. Ichirei, then scoot 2x and take dougu.
- Bringing the bowl to the kinin:
- In most cases, you don’t really need to stand. Specifically:
- Hachijo-specific notes:
- (NOTE: We didn’t cover this portion, but I’m migrating old notes here as this seems to be becoming the more important note)
- After you give the haikenbutsu to the kinin, you should do the moonwalk thing:
- Give the dougu
- Scoot back 2x, ichirei
- Stand on L, then moonwalk in reverse all the way back to your spot.
- And in general when you stand from the kinin, you should take two steps back, ie:
- Give the chawan
- Scoot back 2x, ichirei
- Stand on L, then take two steps backwards, then turn and walk to your spot.
Kinin Kiyotsugu Koicha / Kinin Kiyotsugu Usucha things
- Seating arrangements for yojohan:
- There are a few options. Kinin is sitting in the center of the kinindatami for all of these. Assume two tomo.
- Tomo are each occupying a full hanjo on the kyaku-datami (i.e. what you would think of as “normal”).
- Kyaku-datami is split into thirds, with the first third unoccupied.
- Tomo are both sitting on the far side, facing the kinin (i.e. backs against the wall).
- The first option is the most natural and my favorite. It’s not like hachijo, but that’s okay.
- Note that you should really give up on the kayoi-datami L/R thing for kinin atsukai if you are doing this. Kinin’s L side herisoto would be inside the tomo’s seating space, which feels weird for all parties involved.
- There are a few options. Kinin is sitting in the center of the kinindatami for all of these. Assume two tomo.
- Nothing very special happens for timing for yojohan.
- First tomo scoots up to get the kinin bowl, and gives it to the kinin. They return back to their seat. Kinin drinks etc as you would expect (bowl still goes center, not L). After drinking, bowl goes around for haiken down to the last guest.
- First tomo still scoots up to get their koicha bowl (or individual tomo scoot to get their usucha bowls).
- Some notes though on timing in general:
- Koicha second chawan is challenging if you have two tomo. Reason being:
- The second tomo has the kininjawan that they need to return. In the meanwhile, the first tomo needs to scoot up and get their koicha chawan.
- One obvious way to do this is for the first tomo to scoot and get the koicha chawan, then for the second tomo to return the kinin chawan after the first tomo makes space.
- However! This is done very similarly to Kasane-jawan, meaning that when the second bowl comes, the first two guests on the second bowl need to jirei to each other (putting the bowl between them).
- This means that the second tomo needs to be there when the first tomo is ready to place the bowl between them and jirei.
- An option to solve the second chawan problem is for the first tomo to do everything, i.e.:
- First tomo scoots to the second tomo and retrieves the kinin chawan.
- Then, they bring it up to teiza. They swap their koicha bowl for the kinin chawan.
- They return to their spot, jirei, and all is good.
- None of this is a problem if you have 3+ tomo:
- Because only the second guest is required to be sitting there when the jirei happens, the third tomo could easy return the bowl after the first tomo gets their bowl.
- Koicha second chawan is challenging if you have two tomo. Reason being:
Other fun kinin things:
- AS TEISHU:
- He always takes out the natsume after usucha, leaving just the hishaku on a diagonal with the futaoki on the lower half.
- This implies that you should be using a one-shelf tana, as if you used a two+ shelf tana, you would need to leave the natsume.
- You should bow at the beginning of temae, even during koicha (meaning bowl to the wall). It’s just a silent ichirei, but still bow.
- He always takes out the natsume after usucha, leaving just the hishaku on a diagonal with the futaoki on the lower half.
- “Real-life” kinin scenarios:
- Newlywed couple
- In this case, probably share one koicha chawan, then use two usucha chawan a la Kinin Kiyotsugu Usucha
- They would share one mat, hanjo each.
- (It is perfectly legal to have two kinin!)
- Birthday boy
- The same as usual kinin
- Diplomats etc (e.g. if Oiemoto was to serve the American president and the Japanese PM):
- Realistically this would be in a hachijo, but still.
- They would realistically share the kinin-datami, hanjo each.
- After first bowl goes out, teishu would probably leave and get the second bowl a la Kinin Kiyotsugu Koicha.
- Newlywed couple