Warigeiko - Thursday, September 6, 2018
Created: September 19, 2018 4:34 AM
Tags: Jigi, Sekiiri, Warigeiko
Updated: September 19, 2018 4:54 AM
(First day of class!) Ito-sensei
Seki iri
- If wearing a suit, keep fukusa basami by your left side.
- Sit by the entrance, sensu 1 mei from the black line and knees 16 mei from the black line.
- Open the door as usual. Hand should be 24 centimeters from the floor, or 8 sun. This is the same height as the white paper that lines the walls from the floor.
- Gyou bow to see the lay of the room.
- To move in, first move sensu forward with right hand (and left hand on your lap). Then pick up fukusa basami with left hand and scoot forward. Repeat until you are fully in the room.
- If closing the door immediately after entering, rotate in place by moving your sensu to the desired position, picking up fukusa basami, and scoot-turning to the sensu position.
- Pick up the sensu first, then stand with fukusa basami. Walk to the tokonoma for tokohaiken. Be sure to center directly on the jiku. Place sensu at 1 mei, knees 16 mei, then shin bow to the jiku. Examine jiku, then examine flowers, then examine jiku again, then shin bow. If you want to examine the flowers individually, be sure to complete the full action each time (so shin bow to jiku, examine, shin bow, move sensu and turn, shin bow, examine, shin bow).
- Note: we do not bow to utensils, but we do bow to jiku.
- Stand with left foot and immediately cover right foot with left foot. Move right foot to the line, then cross the line with your left. Here, you walk to the corner of the room to the host entrance tatami via diagonal, leading with your left foot.
- Cross directly over the corner of the tatami with your left foot. Right foot takes one step in massugu, then left covers right, then right crosses into the next half-tatami toward the temaeza. This corner tatami is a three-step tatami.
- Sit in temaeza, sensu in front. Do not bow. Get into gyou bow position to examine the equipment.
- When exiting temaeza, stand with left foot. Move your left foot back to the diagonal of the tatami (not straight back), then right foot to the line. Exit the tatami with your left foot.
- At the corner tatami, walk toward the outer position (toward the wall rather than the interior of the room) to allow room for other kyaku. Three steps to let you enter the adjacent tatami with right foot.
- Sit with sensu on your right, fukusa basami on your left (temporary seating position).
- Once the final kyaku finishes tokohaiken, all kyaku stand together and walk around the outside of the room to their positions. This time, when they sit, sensu goes in front (TODO check this, this is only for sensei in the room right?)
Jigi
- To judge the proper angle of your body, bring your hands into kamaeru position, then lean forward keeping your arms locked. This is how low you should bow for shin. For gyou and sou, adapt accordingly (I think???)
- For shin and gyou bows, count to 8 in total. 2 to lower yourself to the bow, 2 to hold the bow, and 4 to raise back up. For sou bow, TODO check, was this also 8?
- Look approximately one tatami mat away from you (re: head position).
- For standing shin bow, your hands should come down to your knees.
- For standing gyou bow, your hands should come down to mid thigh.
- For standing sou bow, your hands should just be in front, and your body should only lean forward mildly.
Sitting/Standing
- For women, one fist between knees in seiza. For men, two fists.
- To sit, first go down into kiza position with your feet together (seiza, but on your toes).
- Then go down to seiza. Only your big toes should overlap.
- To stand, first get into kiza. Then bring one foot slightly forward (no measurements were given, but maybe 4 inches?). Stand directly in place (you need quad strength for this lol). Bring your feet back together with toes touching or toes nearly touching. Not shoulder width.
- Women stand with their hands flat on their sides, men stand making mild circles with their hands at their sides.
Fukusa sabaki
- Always when folding fukusa, be in kamaeru. Be behind the knee line.
- For folding the fukusa to put back into kimono:
- Holding the rectangle, thumbs should be 3cm in from the corners (horizontally), not quite touching the top of the fukusa.
- Fold away from you, not breaking kamaeru position.
- Thumbs come together like magnets. Right hand pinches on top above the left hand.
- Left hand grabs what is now the top of the rectangle.
- Right hand slides down, then both hands rotate the fukusa like a steering wheel.
- For folding fukusa to put on obi:
- Nothing fancy, do like normal.
- To take out, pull out one third, then hold hands in parallel to knee line.
- For purification folding:
- All normal. They say “balance a chasen on the back of your hand.”
- When you do the ichimonji part, it should be to the left of your knee, not over your knee. Your left hand must be straight forward along with your arm. Your elbows shouldn’t be completely tucked — you should pretend you have ping pong balls stuck in your arm pits.
Cleaning natsume
- Normal, although Ito-sensei definitely focused more on the rim of the lid than the top of the lid… will have to watch her more carefully next time. Fukusa was tilted fairly significantly on front and back sides.
Cleaning chashaku
- Ito-sensei held the chashaku pretty deep inside the fukusa, almost like enveloping the chashaku inside a fukusa cylinder. Otherwise, fairly normal.
- Note on angle: keep the chashaku at the same angle as your legs, ie maybe 10 degrees below parallel.
Other notes
- Welcome dinner today. japanese is hard. study more.