- for yubikiri, suzuki says to only touch your fingertips together, not your whole finger.
- Glenn and I feel like it makes it look a little too itsy bitsy spider. But maybe there’s a way to change your posture to make it took bigger.
About Oki-mizusashi, my writing:
Oki-mizusashi (e.g. hira-mizusashi, any other time when the mizusashi is directly placed on the tatami) is still hakobi temae. So this means using aodake futaoki, no yugaeshi, no mizutsugi.
However, as a purely practical matter, you must refill the mizutsugi at some point during a chaji. You can’t take it out of the room, so the only option you have is to bring a mizutsugi after koicha. This is why we don’t display the hishaku and futaoki after koicha on hira-mizusashi, because otherwise you would have to take it off etc to refill. You don’t need to refill after usucha though, which means you can leave the hishaku and futaoki.
Also, you may see people using kazari futaoki, like kani, for hira-mizusashi. You may even see this in books. According to the gyoteibu, the futaoki for this temae is aodake. But if you are a “seasoned chajin,” you may use your judgment to change to kazari futaoki if it suits your toriawase.
(Also, there are other scenarios where you may leave a hira-mizusashi out, e.g. nagaita. That is not a hakobi temae, so you do all of the things you would usually do for non-hakobi, e.g. yugaeshi)