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Gyo no Gyo (Furo)

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2025-11-02
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Temae Reference
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Okuden

Parent: Gyo no Gyo

Special characteristics for Furo

  • For furo, placing the hishaku is always oki, kiri.
    • The first time you take water, you okibishaku, Next time, you kiribishaku, even if it’s cold water or you aren’t making tea with it. Then, ping-pong repeat between the two every time you handle the hishaku.
    • For Shin, it’s always tori-oki, ie “always do cold-water pickup, then always place down with okibishaku.”
    • Note that you never hikibishaku for Shin or Gyo, or anything in the juuden.
      • Sou and gyo temae are treated the same in the juuden, both doing the gyo style of oki-kiri.

Temae

Setup

  • Chaire is in the shifuku on the center of the Hakkebon.
  • Hakke-bon is on the center of the ten-ita, with the fire trigram facing forward.
  • The ji-ita is arranged as normal for furo daisu.
    • The daisu may be between 16 and 18 mei away from the kinindatami heri, depending on the temae and the person. 18 mei is great for this temae, especially for placing the lid on the hane.
    • The furo and mizusashi should be centered in their respective halves.
    • The shakutate should be centered in the rear half of the ji-ita, with the kodai tangent to the the center line of the daisu, biased toward the mizusashi.
    • The kensui should be centered in the space remaining below the shakutate.

Jiita spacing

Layout on the jiita really depends on your dougu. For example, our furo is gigantic. Precisely following the layout described above looks ridiculous with our equipment.

In addition to aesthetic balance, make sure there is enough room for the hibashi to navigate around the kensui.

Nakadachi

  • Teishu enters the room with the chawan / dai (and everything inside), and sits directly at the knee line, placing the chawan / dai down to center.
  • Teishu rearranges the dougu onto the hakkebon, in this order:
    • Chaire goes to thunder (3:00), moving with 2h.
    • Chashaku goes to wind (4:30), moving with 3h.
    • Chakin is wet, so it goes to fire (6:00).
      • Chasen goes karioki to the right of the chawan to do this.
      • No special care is needed to exit from the front; the chakin may exit from the back.
    • Chasen goes on top of chakin, a la sen-zara.
    • Chawan / dai move to swamp / lake (9:00).
      • Hold the dai from 9:00 and 6:00 to make sure you clear the side of the chasen.
  • Shikko diagonally to the mizusashi. Move the mizusashi to the rear, then shittai back to imai (knee line).
  • Shittai from the knee line and exit (backing out).
    • Stand with L, take a small initial step with L, then cross the heri with R.
    • Immediately turn with L toward the Mawari-sado, bring R up to the line, then cross with L.
      • For Shomen-guchi, the footwork is identical, except you turn wholly around (still in 4 steps).
      • Remember that if you’re holding a kensui, you’ll need to 1) turn toward the wall, and 2) leave space in front of you to sit for opening the door.

Entrance

  • Open the door in shin, close the door behind you, and sit low from temaeza.
    • Because everything is already at temaeza, you come in with nothing. No aisatsu or sorei.
  • Shikko 3x up to the knee line.
  • Following the mnemonic of “ue, shita, ue ue shita,” arrange temaeza.
    • Ue — Pull the hakke-bon forward one scoot on the ten-ita. It’s “far away”, so hold from 7:30 and 4:30.
      • Foot of the bon should be giri-giri against the edge of the ten-ita, meaning the lip overhangs.
    • Shita — Remove the hibashi as usual for daisu hirademae, both together, avoiding around L side of kensui.
    • Ue — Take down the chaire, and place it mizusashi shomen.
    • Ue — Take down the dai, and place it himado-mae.
    • Shita — Place the kensui out immediately to its final position.
      • 2h to take the kensui from the jiita, then 1h (L) to place down to knee line.
  • Place the hoya-san onto the ji-ita (3h), leaving it closed, and sorei.
    • Hoya-san position should be such that the kama lid is tangent to the front of the ji-ita when its placed down.

Kiyome

Note: From here onward, things are mostly as one would expect if you mixed daitenmoku with karamono. Some rules, such as “the tenmoku-chawan must always be alone,” or, “the chaire must always be alone” no longer apply, because both the chawan and the chaire are equally-ranked.

  • Bring the chawan+dai and chaire to temae.
    • Chawan is far, chaire is near, like in hira-demae.
    • L → R rules about making contact with the dai still apply.
    • 2H rules about taking the chaire still apply.
  • Remove the shifuku from the chaire as usual for karamono, and place on the left corner of the ten-ita.
    • The daisu ten-ita is divided into eight parts: in, yo, in, yo, in, yo, in, yo.
    • The shifuku is an in object, so it must be placed into a yo slot.
      • This includes the cord as well; you should gently adjust the cords so they don’t lay about across multiple slots.
      • Also, when placing the shifuku, it must go directly into the slot. No crossing lines diagonally to get to the slot.
  • Shin-sabaki and wipe the chaire as in Karamono temae, returning to its position mizusashi shomen.
  • Sou-sabaki and wipe the chashaku (1h pickup from hakkebon top/bottom).
    • 3x wipe as usual, then fuki-modoshi.
    • Holding the chashaku nigiriconde, take the fukusa from the bottom and sou-sabaki. Wipe one last time, then lean the chashaku on the chaire.
  • Place the fukusa as-is on the floor, karioki by the right knee, then open the hoya-san (going by the left to avoid the chawan).
  • Open the kama lid, placing the fukusa beneath the kensui.
  • Warm the chawan, purify the dai, and do chasentoshi as usual for Daitenmoku temae. Chawan goes to ji-ita when warming.
    • (Don’t forget oki-kiri).
    • Take hishaku as usual for daisu hira-demae (betsu-betsu from lid).
    • Draw a half-scoop of oyu, returning hishaku onto kama.
    • Kosusugi, empty, and catch the drip with your ring finger. Return the chawan to the dai.
    • Add another half-scoop of oyu, then take the chasen from the ten-ita and place it into the chawan. Move the chawan temporarily to the ji-ita in front of the mizusashi.
    • Shin-sabaki, taking the fukusa from the bottom to fix the orientation. Wipe the dai as usual for Daitenmoku, then refold into (right-side up) sou-sabaki and return the fukusa to below the kensui.
    • Take the chawan and chasentoshi in your palm, 3x age.
    • Place the chasen to kensui no migi kata on completion.
    • Empty the bowl, and catch the drip / wipe as usual with the chakin, placing the bowl back onto the dai.
  • Tatami-kae, then return chakin to its place on the hakke-bon on the ten-ita.

Making tea

  • Take the chashaku from the chaire, and place it on the right side of the hane.
    • [?] TODO Taking the chashaku here, do you rehold and pinch from sides to place on hane? ➕ 2025-10-30
  • Momide, then take the chaire and place the lid on the front of the hane.
    • If it is a heishibuta, then it should be flipped.
    • This is always a tight squeeze 🙁
  • Sukuidashi, then return the chashaku to the hane.
  • Close the lid and return the chaire to its home. Zig-zag and tap as usual for tenmoku-chawan. No wiping yet!
  • Return the chashaku to the chaire, then open the mizusashi with the lid in the gyo position.
    • Opening the lid in gyo is 3H as usual, except with the lid going to 4:30, tsumami still facing to the right.
      • glenn try to gently avoid the chaire when opening the lid.
    • Note: From the juuden, it seems that the true gyo position is actually at 3:00. But, because of the position of the mizusashi, it gets moved slightly forward.
      • 2025-05-24 I think I disagree with this. It makes more sense to me for 3:00 to be the accommodated position to handle Daien no Sou, then for this to be the real position.
  • Make tea as usual.
  • Turn with the dai as usual (holding by the hane), and place out to kantsuki. Shittai, hikai.

Drinking tea

  • Ask about fukukagen after the first sip as usual.
  • Scoot back forward and answer questions from kyakutsuki.
    • “O-chamei wa, o-tsume wa” are as usual.
    • For sweets, guests may say something like “kazu kazu no okashi wa taihen oishikuchodai itashimashita (…).”
    • Guests should then ask about sweets individually, NOT “sore zore no okashi…”.
    • Gyo-no-gyo has five sweets.

Shimai

  • After suikiri, turn back and replenish the kama etc as usual.
    • Add water → return fukusa to obi.
    • Note: You don’t do this in shin temae, because usucha follows in a different room. In gyo etc, usucha would follow in this same room from the same daisu setup.
  • Turn back to kyakutsuki and retrieve the bowl from kantsuki.
  • Sorei, questions etc.
    • O-chawan no go-denrai wa? O-dai wa?
  • Close with the bowl as usual for daitenmoku, but with tatami-kae.
    • Add oyu and kosusugi. Empty, catch the drip with your ring finder, and ichiyo oshimai itashimasu.
    • Add cold water, and do chasentoshi.
      • Chawan stays on the dai.
      • Chasen is 3x age.
      • Left hand stays on the hozuki seam.
    • Empty, catch the drip and wipe with chakin, then tatami-kae. After tatami-kae, leave the chakin in the bowl. Then, place the chasen in the bowl.
  • Wipe chashaku.
    • Take the chashaku, then sou-sabaki, taking from the bottom.
      • The kensui stays as-is.
    • Wipe 3x, then without pom-pom, refold from the bottom and wipe one last time. Immediately place the chashaku onto the bowl (1H), then return your fukusa to your obi as-is.
  • Return chawan+dai to himado-mae, then add cold water with yugaeshi. Hishaku goes back to shakutate, kama is closed, hoyasan is closed, mizusashi is closed.

Haiken

  • After the mizusashi lid is closed, guests asks for karamono no haiken only.
  • Like always after haiken, touch the futaoki.
    • Move hoya-san back to its original position with 3h (ie as if it was inside the kensui).
  • Take chaire and kiyome.
    • Momide, take the chaire, then turn to kyakutsuki.
    • Purify chaire as usual for karamono temae (gyo-sabaki), placing out to kantsuki.
  • After returning the fukusa to your obi, the guest asks for o-chashaku, o-shifuku no haiken.
  • Return to imai, placing out the chashaku and shifuku.
    • Everything goes to kantsuki, although the shifuku does still overlap the chashaku, leaving a slight separation between {chaire} and {chashaku + shifuku}.
    • Te wo tsuite may be “normal” here, ie no need to go down to shin.
  • Return to daisu shomen, and finish putting away the daisu.
    • Turn back to daisu shomen.
    • Place the chawan / dai onto the bon (which is still biased forward).
    • Return hibashi once the chawan is out of the way.
    • Push the bon back to center.
      • The way I remember this: hibashi needs to get put away. Do the minimum possible to make that happen. THEN move the bon back to its home. (Even though it’s a little silly that you’ll move it back in a moment when you come to take it).
  • Exit with kensui.
    • Shittai from daisu shomen, then pick up the kensui while low and exit.
  • Return, exit with bon and chawan.
    • Return to daisu shomen sitting low, then shikko.
    • Pull the bon forward once from 9:30 and 4:30, then take from the sides.
    • Shittai while holding the bon, then exit.
  • Return, replenish water.
    • Return with the mizutsugi, sitting low.
    • Place the mizutsugi down to daisu-shomen like the usual hira-daisu position.
    • Shikko diagonally to the front of the mizusashi.
      • (I have in my notes that you do not need to go beyond the knee line glenn. So sitting low and scooting up diagonally only needs to bring you to the knee line. This holds for things in general. That said, I think I prefer to be closer for this movement.)
    • Pull the mizusashi back to its original position.
    • Open the lid 2h like in hira-demae and refill as usual.
    • Shittai back to below the knee line (center), then exit with the mizutsugi.
      • (Still backing out! Kensui isn’t back yet.)
  • Return with kensui.
    • Sit low, and place the kensui down to daisu shomen with 2h.
    • Shikko forward.
    • 3h futaoki into kensui, L supporting the side of the kensui once you place the hoyasan in.
    • 2h kensui to its home on the jiita.
    • Stand and turn directly as in hirademae, then exit.

Guests do haiken, etc. Dougu is returned in kamiza-geza order, not right-left order.

  • Bring a Rikyugata Chuu Natsume back in on return.
    • Carry it in holding 2h, with R hangetsu.
    • When placing on the ten-ita, hold the natsume more from the side, being careful not to touch the ten-ita with your arm.
    • Turn to the haiken dougu.
  • Answer questions
  • To exit:
    • Momide, then take shifuku.
      • Everything here is going to be done with 2h, and kept very close to the original position (ie hovering around the chaire).
    • Place the chaire on the shifuku, so that it’s sitting like Buddha on a zabuton, with L thumb on kata.
    • Staying very close, take the chashaku in R and hold nigiriconde.
    • Hold the right side of the chaire such that the tsuyu is above the head of the chaire (ie a cobra above the head of the Buddha).
    • Once R is in place, L thumb can drop from kata to center.
    • Back at the door, the chashaku goes down as usual, but the chaire and shifuku go down as a pair, with the chaire sitting on a zabuton (shiifuku) on the floor.

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