The most common form of fushinashi chashaku is Zouge Chashaku, but there do exist bamboo fushinashi chashaku.
Temae acceptability
Talking with glenn, we are unclear.
- There exists one Juuden where you must use fushinashi.
- All other times, it is common to use zouge.
- Daitenmoku is the lowest temae in which we use fushinashi chashaku, and Glenn feels it’s okay to use non-zouge here.
But, there is no hard rule. Times are a-changing. Maybe there will be more acceptance for non-zouge in the future?
From Anh
Sooo I’m reading a book (like I told Kristina last time) and I think I have found the answer for the question “What is considered shin-chashaku” 😂 the first shin chashaku was made of ivory imported from China. Eventually when ivory became very scarce, they thought of replace it with bamboo without node. However in order to make such chashaku it need a bamboo which has very long spacing between 2 nodes, and those kind of bamboo are very hard to come by, so bamboo chashaku without node is considered valuable. So in conclusion, if it’s a smooth chashaku made out of valuable material, it’s considered shin.
Also regarding Motobushi Chashaku:
also explain why motobushi is considered gyo chashaku, was because in order to make shin bamboo chashaku they need the very long spacing between 2 nodes, which is very hard to come by, and so eventually, the one with a node at the bottom is kinda acceptable and that’s how motobushi became gyo