Warigeiko - Thursday, September 13, 2018
Created: September 19, 2018 4:42 AM
Tags: Sekiiri, Usucha, Walking, Warigeiko
Updated: September 19, 2018 4:43 AM
Ito-sensei (Final day of warigeiko!)
Learning with Ito-sensei is a little difficult (or maybe it’s just the order we’ve learned in). She seems to contradict what some of the other sensei are saying. Oh well.
Warigeiko
- Be more careful with fingers during fukusa-sabaki. Make sure they’re in one straight line when holding the triangle.
- Fukusa-sabaki, try to end with everything in line with the front. Especially during chashaku.
- Reiterating, but make sure chashaku is in line with the curve of your legs. For me, this means lower than what I normally do.
- When about to pick up the chakin to clean the bowl, the bowl should be over your left knee (but a bit more inside).
- Moving the chakin out of the bowl is less “through the front door always” and more “when you pick it up, sit back up straight a bit to force your hand out through the front door.”
- When you’re lifting the chasen out after chasentoshi, the chasen should only point down when it’s over the circumference of the bowl. Any past that, and it should be more vertical.
- For scooping tea out, you should try to scoop from 10 to 1 (clock). The BOTTOM of the natsume should be in line with the edge of the bowl, not the rim of the natsume.
Seki-iri
- When standing from the tokonoma, you want to exit with an immediate right-foot cover, then left foot passing through the corner. To do this, first make a small turn geza away from the tokonoma (normal). Then, get up into kiza, but when you do this, swivel maybe ~30 degrees. So you start off facing the tokonoma (0deg), then you turn geza (maybe -15deg), then you swivel a bit to get to kiza (-45ish deg). From there, stand straight up (from left foot). Immediately move your right foot to cover your left foot. Exit with your left.
Walking
- From observation, she walks as if she’s following an invisible tight rope. Somebody else said earlier (can’t remember who, maybe Ito-sensei) that you shouldn’t put the weight on the foot you’re leading with. Rather, you should get your foot in position, then shift your weight.
- Also, we walk with the foot not leaving the ground — it shouldn’t necessarily be the toes that stay on the ground. Imagine keeping the outer sole of the foot on the ground. This looks more natural.