Kinindate Usucha

Notes to sort

• Notable points:
  • Bring in the tomo kaejawan along with the kensui
    • TODO placement?
  • Start making tomo usucha immediately after kinin first sip
  • Kinin and tomo do not place their bowls geza/kamiza for the osaki/oshouban, respectively
  • Oshimai is requested twice, by kinin and by first tomo
  • After kinin bowl is returned and shimai is requested, kinin bowl is cleaned and put away with chakin/chasen. Tomo bowl takes its place (could still be making more tea). Natsume and chashaku stay out.

Pointo

Dai handling

• Walking with the dai is done with L holding the hane deeply, R holding the hozuki.
• Moving the dai around: rotate your hands around the hane.
  • For example, to bring from mizusashi shomen to katte in furo:
    • Take L at 6’, R at 3’.
    • Come up to center, rotating L to 9’.
    • Bring down to katte, rotating R to 6’.
• Turning the dai out for guests: migi-mawari.
  • Some teachers say to turn from 12’ and 6’, but that makes your wrists weird.
  • Glenn opinion, better to turn like it is a square (take from upper-right and lower-left, turn 90 degrees, etc)
• Whisking tea: L hand on top of bowl as if whisking on a tray.

Teishu

	Tenmoku-dai	Kiji-dai
Walking	R pinky tucked against the hozuki	All four R fingers holding against the hozuki
Taking dai	Envision daisu. Make contact first with whichever side of the daisu the dai comes from. Usually, this means L contacts hane first.	No contact requirements.
Taking chawan	Always make contact with R first. Take from dai with 2h.	No contact requirements, but always take from dai with 2h.
Chasentoshi	3x up, 3x down. Particularly for shimai, first up is immediately after sara-sara, no place down.	As usual for hira-demae. 2x up, 2x down at start. 1x up, 1x down at end.
Scooping tea	Dependent on the temae.	As usual for hira-demae. Tap 3’ rim with chashaku.
Pouring water	L support, R pour inside the chawan (to prevent splashes)	As usual for hira-demae. No L support, pour from above.
Kneading	Hold the hozuki with L (all four fingers, no pinky tucking)	L hand flat on top like on table. (Yes, it’s awful.)
Turning	Hidari-mawari (tenmokujawan = karamono, although dai may be wamono)	Migi-mawari (wamono)
Emptying in kensui	2h to empty, primary hand completely covering kodai. Always catch drip, either with hand or chakin as required by procedure.	1h to empty into kensui. Never catch drip.
Shimai	Always re-wipe chawan before closing.	Never re-wipe chawan (still green in bottom)

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Other

• After the kinin’s first sip when you’re supposed to koshi your fukusa, you are still facing kyakutsuki. So you pick up your fukusa with your left hand, palm facing down so that when bring it in front of you, tips face up.
• Stay in kyakutsuki / hikae when the bowl is served. Wait until ofukukagen to turn.
• Chashaku goes on FUKUSA when placing out for haiken.
  • It is removed from the fukusa by the kinin and never put back onto the fukusa. (Once it touches the ground, it is unclean).
• When kinin is interacting with dougu, if they are placing it out heri-soto or hanto is placing it for them, it must always go to the kinin’s upper-right (ie geza marudatami).
  • The only exception to this that I’m aware of is the takatsuki. From my notes from Ro-sensei, I have the takatsuki going to upper-left when returning. But, that is some garbage okeiko-only method anyway, so I don’t think it matters much.
  • TODO Where does the higashiki (takatsuki) live generally? Probably where it would live in chaji, in far upper-R next to tabakobon? ✅ 2023-04-16
    • Answered ourselves alongside discussion with Glenn: See 2023-04-16 higashiki discussion for context.
    • Depends on room. In normal (non-kinin) where you sit inside a hanjo, you don’t have room to put the higashiki kamiza, thus it must be geza. However! In kinin, you have way more room (you’re sitting on a full mat). So, maybe you do have room to place it kamiza.

Dougu

Preferably first-time use dougu, especially for things used to actually make tea.

• Chawan
• Dai (kiji)
• Chashaku
• Usuki (may be kiji, but not strictly necessary)
  • TODO verify — usuki, need be kiji? ✅ 2023-04-16
    • Hooo this was a doozy.
    • Glenn: He has never heard of usuki being kiji. If you use kiji, especially kiri kiji, then it starts to look like a kencha. Overall, his dougu list feelings are:
      • Choose things that are glamorous. Shin-nuri tana, maybe a shin-nuri natsume, etc.
      • Prefers natsume, but any kind of makie is okay.
      • Kiji-dai is preferred.
      • In the olden days, you always used that white chawan (and some people still do it, ie Christy-sensei). However, nowadays you see all kinds being used. For example, you can use a raku-jawan for koicha (on the dai) and another chawan for usucha. (This is confirmed in the new white books, and also by our Midorikai experience: We used raku-jawan for kinin).
    • HOWEVER! In Midorikai, we used kiji everything. The goal from a dougu perspective was to have everything be as new as possible, and using kiji was a big part of that. Kiji tana, kiji usuki, kiji dai. IIRC, even magemono kensui. So, this is in fundamental conflict with Glenn’s take.
    • However-however. Glenn’s opinion on this temae, which I do agree with, is that dougu should be de-emphasized in favor of emphasizing the guest. “This is the only temae where we learn how to treat people.” So, don’t be prescriptive about exactly which dougu you should use (which is bullshit anyway for so many reasons: who will actually ever serve a kinin, and if you do, will you actually go and buy all new things? and if you don’t, will you use the boring white chawan, or will you use something nice?), and instead, focus on the heart you need to serve the kinin.
      • Additionally, he’s also seen hakobi kinindate, further emphasizing the removal from worrying about dougu. I am very curious though! What is that like? Do you still use a dai?

Other required dougu:

• Takatsuki for higashi
• Tana (might not be strictly necessary, but I have never seen it not used)
• Hachijo room
  • Kinin should not use nijiriguchi to enter! They must have a kinin-guchi to stand and enter.

Procedure (Furo)

Entrance

• Bring in sweets.
  • Open door, ichirei with okashi toward the wall.
  • Hold the takatsuki stem with L, steady with R.
  • Place herisoto in front of kinin (on geza marudatami), scoot back 2x, and bow. okashi wo douzo.
  • Stand, reverse two paces backward, then turn and exit. Be careful to avoid turning your back to kinin where possible.
  • Close the door.
• Bring in dai.
  • Open door, dai toward the wall. Usucha sashi-agemasu.
    • TODO When the teishu opens the door at the beginning, does the kinin need to “douzo o-hairi wo?“? ✅ 2023-04-16
      • Glenn: No, you can usucha sashiagemasu like usual, including a bow. Remember though that in Kinindate Koicha, you must bow at the start, which does mean putting the bowl to the side and bowing, different from hakobi koicha.
      • HOWEVER! Yes, the hanto must shitsureishimasu before entering, and kinin must acknowledge them with douzo o-hairi wo.
        • He does this WILD thing where hanto actually says shitsureishimasu before opening the door, from behind the closed fusuma…
        • (Then he doesn’t wait for the douzo to enter, he just opens the door. Then, sitting there, he waits for the douzo. )
        • I don’t like this, but I can see the use.
  • Take dai as described above, walk to temaeza.
  • Dai to geza, usuki down 1h with R, dai to chawan position at mizusashi shomen as usual for hira-demae.
  • Back to mizuya.
• Bring in kensui as usual for hira-demae. Leave the door open (furo usucha).
  • TODO Door stays open for furo, or close? ✅ 2023-04-16
    • Glenn: Stays open, like usual for furo usucha.
• Take out hishaku, futaoki etc as usual for tana.
  • After hishaku comes out, hanto may come in.
    • Ichirei and shitsurei-itashimasu. Kinin should allow them in with a douzo o-hairi wo or something.
    • Nijiru in. (Door stays open, furo usucha).
    • Hanto turns to diagonal, facing kinin, while sitting on fumikomi-datami (entrance mat). Knuckles to ground in hikae.

Opening

• Kiyome etc as usual for hira-demae. Handle chawan + dai as described above.
  • (Don’t forget, 2h to take chawan, but 1h to pour into kensui)
  • POINTO: Add oyu to the chawan first, then place the chasen in, THEN bring it forward.
• Make tea as usual for hira-demae.
• Place dai out for hanto.
  • 2h take dai by hane, turn to kyakutsuki.
  • Turn dai in the air, place out. Regular position, not kantsuki.
  • Scoot back 2x and hikae.
• Hanto brings dai to kinin.
  • See Kinin Guest Procedures

Drinking tea

• See Kinin Guest Procedures for kinin side.
  • (Teishu stays hikae the whole time)
• After first sip, teishu is still hikae, but you need to koshi your fukusa. With L palm, take fukusa such that tips are up, and return to obi.
  • [?] TODO Kinindate usucha, does teishu scoot forward after guest starts drinking?
    • My thoughts: In koicha, you have a clear indicator for when to scoot forward (wait for fukukagen, at which point you need to turn and deal with things anyway in ro. In furo, you can just scoot up and un-hikae, waiting for questions).
    • I have in my notes Okeiko-Glenn-2022-06-05 that you should wait until the guest brings the bowl heriuchi before scooting forward, but I don’t have it written which temae that is for (usucha? chawan kazari? kinin)?. Then, if I scoot forward, I would also stop hikae with hands.
    • Chanoyu Quarterly pretty clearly says that you stay hikae the whole time in kinindate usucha… but I really feel like you could un-hikae once you no longer have any action items (ie staying low in case the bowl needs to be returned to be remade).

Shimai

• Hanto returns bowl to douguza.
• Teishu, still at kyakutsuki, scoots forward, takes dai by hane, and turns back to imai.
• Proceed as usual for shimai for hira-demae.

Haiken

• Kinin asks for usuki, chashaku haiken as usual for usucha.
• Teishu prepares haiken as usual for hira-demae, up until the usuki.
• Don’t put fukusa on belt after usuki goes out. Instead, place still-folded fukusa on L palm. Turn to imai, place chashaku on fukusa. Turn back to kyakutsuki, and place combo chashaku + fukusa out to the usual chashaku spot.
  • Chashaku is “new”, thus should not touch the floor.
• Mizutsugi etc, exit.

Exit

• On return, usuki → chashaku → fukusa (still folded) should all be separated.
• Questions are asked as usual for usuki, chashaku. No questions for fukusa.
• Koshi fukusa, then take dougu and exit as usual for hira-demae (usuki to tana).