Ryurei - Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Created: September 19, 2018 4:41 AM
Tags: Guest, Koicha, Ryurei, Usucha
Updated: September 19, 2018 4:59 AM
Our first joint jitsugi! Tenchaban with Suzuki-sensei. Our group (1A) were only guests while the senpai went through their temae, but we got to see usucha, koicha, and gozumi.
Tenchaban guest notes:
- (Usucha) don’t know when yet, but sometime after the first kyaku moves the okashiki over, the second kyaku should move it in front of them to make room for the first guest.
- (Both) rotate the okashiki away from you when you’re done.
- (Koicha) don’t take the kuromoji, leave it in the fuchidaka diagonal to you (lower right to upper left?).
- (Koicha) during the summer, use a chasen to spritz a tiny bit of water on the top of the fuchidaka + kuromoji
- General notes, we treat the guest tables in ryurei like tatami, with an imaginary line running down the middle designating heriuchi/herisoto.
- From observation (so not designated by sensei), when placing objects to the right (first guest) or to the left (last guest), go around and below the natsume, not over top of the natsume.
Tenchaban hanto notes:
- When about to give something to either the guest or the host, place the dougu on the edge of the table (chashaku should be slightly hanging off). Then pick up and turn appropriately, pretending the tatami black line runs down the center of the tables.
- Other note, not important (we’ll learn later), but the way you take the hishaku out is so strange? Pull straight out, lower to 3 o’clock, then bring to yourself by keeping the hishaku upright (maybe 1 inch off the table) and weaving through the dougu. It’s like the hishaku is a ghost and floating from the hishakutate (?) to you.
Other note, not important (we’ll learn later), but the way you take the hishaku out is so strange? Pull straight out, lower to 3 o’clock, then bring to yourself by keeping the hishaku upright (maybe 1 inch off the table) and weaving through the dougu. It’s like the hishaku is a ghost and floating from the hishakutate (?) to you.