Whenever the daisu is “active”, you back out of the temae-datami.
Opening / closing the door is done in shin.
The opening sequence follows the mnemonic “ue, shita, ue ue shita.”
Pull the bon forward (ue), remove the hibashi (shita), take down the chaire to mizusashi shomen and the dai to himado-mae (ue ue), then place the kensui to its final position (shita).
The kensui does not move the entire temae!
When taking the hoya-san, avoid the chawan by going to the left.
Chaire and chawan are generally handled as usual for karamono / daitenmoku, but with the following exceptions:
Momide before touching the shifuku-less chaire.
When letting the chasen soak in the bowl, the bowl goes onto the ji-ita.
Both times after wiping the bowl with the chakin, you must tatami-kae.
The chashaku is cleaned at at the beginning and end (not after scooping tea), and it is wiped with fuki-modoshi. Some exceptions to the norm:
There is no pom-pom after wiping.
The fukusa is taken top, bottom, bottom, bottom, ie the first time you fold sou-sabaki, you take it as usual. For every subsequent time, you take from the underside.
Mizusashi lid goes to the gyo position, ie 3H and placed at 4:30.
Chashaku and chaire lid both rest on the hane while scooping tea.
Hibashi are not returned to the shakutate until after the chawan / dai goes onto the bon, which is done after the shifuku is placed out for haiken.
Stand like hakobi from imai after returning kensui to daisui jiita.
History
I don’t actually know anything here. Should fill in once I have more.
Dougu
Note: This is done in a yojohan only, particularly with a Mawari-sado. The prototype of this would be in the Yuin chashitsu.
Gyo takedaisu (ro-size)
For some reason, Urasenke only uses the ro-size takedaisu for this temae. Supposedly there exists a furo takedaisu by Jo-o, but Glenn has never seen it.
For comparison, Shin no Gyo must use the shin-daisu, which only comes in one size (with the exception of different sizing for Kansai vs Kanto tatami, same with Rikyu’s Yoshidana).
You may not use other gyo daisu (ie, Kyu Daisu is gyo, Korai Daisu is sou). Those are reserved for daisu hirademae, or generally other occasions (ie New Year’s).
Tenmokujawan on a shinnuri dai
Tenmoku-jawan should be “kenzan”?
Dai must be karamono or early wamono (ie first-generation Sotetsu). A common answer is Karamono Kuro-dai.
Chuko-meibutsu karamono chaire
This should be either otsubo-kata, or katatsuki (the short one, not our usual wamono size).
Note on the above two: Glenn was originally taught that the shakutate must be raku, and the mizusashi must be seto hitoeguchi. However! More recently, he has heard that both dougu may be any kuniyaki.
“Any kuniyaki for the shakutate seems fine, but any kuniyaki for the mizusashi doesn’t feel right to me.”
Karakane hoya-san futaoki
Karakane efugo kensui
Katakuchi mizutsugi
Juuniden used to be entirely with magemono katakuchi. Tantansai changed the temae to instead use yakimono katakuchi.
Kazari hibashi
Glenn was originally told that they must be tori-gashira hibashi. However, from juuden, it seems that they must not be tori-gashira, and they must be hibashi with rotational symmetry.
For ro, same as above. Remember that this is only done in yojohan or smaller, so a robuchi with makie would not be used.
Special Characteristics
This temae is a mix between daitenmoku and karamono temae. Other than the opening sequence and overall positioning, things usually go as one would expect for those two temae.
During the sho-iri, the daisu is arranged with the chaire on the hakke-bon, and the hakke-bon on the center of the ten-ita.
After guests exit from the sho-iri, the host brings in the tenmokujawan and rearranges everything on the dai. (Note: No need to worry about the door, considering that this is nakadachi.)
Chaire goes to 3:00, to the thunder trigram.
Chashaku goes to 4:30, to the wind trigram.
Chakin and chasen (a la sen-zara) go to 6:00, to the fire trigram.
Chawan and dai go to 9:00, to the swamp/lake trigram.
After rearranging, the host moves dougu on the ji-ita into midare.
Fukusa flipping
Every time we wipe the chashaku, we flip the fukusa to wipe from a different side. The order is, “top, bottom, bottom, bottom.”
Most notably, we do not pom-pom at the end of this temae, so for the final cleaning, we do our “main” wiping using the inside of the fukusa. After flipping and wiping one last time, the majority of the tea will be hidden on the inside.
Mnemonics
The only mnemonic for this temae is “ue, shita, ue ue shita.” This is for how to open when you enter to do temae.
Ue — First, pull the bon forward on the ten-ita. This is usually done in two moves: take the bon close (ie 7:30 and 4:30), then take the bon from the sides (9:00 and 3:00).
Shita — Remove the hibashi and place them to the side of the daisu.
Ue — Bring the chaire down to the floor.
Ue — Bring the dai down to the floor.
Shita — Take the kensui from the ji-ita, and immediately place it to its final position by your knee.
It’s preferable to use dried fruits and nuts, because guests are not expected to necessarily eat all of this. Especially in ro, where sweets immediately follow kaiseki, people will be too full! And wet things do not store nicely in your sleeve.
For ro, imai is halfway between the corner of the ro and the corner of the daisu (projected onto the tatami heri). The knee line stays the same, but your body angle changes.
Note that this seems to have changed. New way is to point always to the shin position, tangent to the corner of the daisu instead of in the middle between as described above. I still like the differentiation.
For ro, haiken is done completely outside the ro.
Konarai — Bisected by the edge of the ro.
Shikaden — 3 mei to the right, relative to the edge of the ro.
Okuden — Completely outside the ro.
Kyaku Notes
Drinking
Drinking is exactly the same as daitenmoku.
Haiken
Note that while moving dougu on the kayoi-datami, you don’t need to think about kantsuki vs not. Everything just comes right up to your body. Kantsuki only matters when placing dougu back for teishu.
Taking dougu from the kayoi-datami:
First, shokyaku takes out their kobukusa. They momide, then place the chaire on the kobukusa.
From then on, try not to touch the chaire. To move the chaire, you can pinch the sides of the kobukusa so that you’re pressing and holding the chaire from the sides (through the kobukusa).
Everything moves as in Karamono. Move chaire, unhook shifuku, move chashaku, re-hook shifuku.
Don’t forget te wo suite through all of this.
Chaire stays herisoto on shokyaku kobukusa, while chashaku and shifuku go heriuchi.
Viewing dougu:
Once shokyaku gets dougu into their spot, guests no longer te wo suite. Transfer between guests does not te wo suite.
This starts back up again when the tsume starts exiting their spot. Moving dougu from heriuchi to herisoto for travel does use te wo suite.
Karamono stays on the kobukusa, and you momide before touching the chaire. Lid goes to the upper right corner of the kobukusa as in karamono, flipping if heishibuta.
Chashaku and shifuku are as usual.
Returning dougu:
Tsume brings out all the dougu in the same way as the shokyaku brought it out.
At the deai, tsume turns the chaire and kobukusa together hidari-mawari, giving to shokyaku’s right. Chashaku and shifuku are as usual.
Shokyaku then does momide, then takes the chaire, turns hidari-mawari, and places to KAMIZA. Then, shokyaku closes the kobukusa, and places everything else out (shifuku and chashaku overlapping).
From glenn, it’s also legal to turn the chaire while still on the kobukusa. If you are going to turn it in the air, do it low.
Scratch Notes
Shimura-sensei says that the ten-ita isn’t split by in/yo, but rather that it’s the eight trigrams from the hakke. ??