This is applicable to Kinindate Usucha, Kinindate Koicha, Kinin Kiyotsugu Usucha, Kinin Kiyotsugu Koicha.
Doing it in a yojohan
From glenn
Kinindate
Kinin can still sit in the middle of the kinindatami and do the left/right thing with the kayoi-datami. Everything else stays pretty standard here. Even the hanto position stays largely the same.
Kinin Kiyotsugu
This one is worse.
For starters, you should always have two tomo. Just having one tomo means there is too much going on. You really need two to manage everything.
One option to arrange the three people (kinin + tomo) is as follows:
- Kinin still sitting on the kinindatami, doing all their dougu atsukai on the kayoi-datami, not doing the left-right thing.
- The two tomo sitting in a hanjo each on the usual kyaku-datami.
Another option:
- Same, but with the two tomo squished down so the first tomo is sitting in the middle, and the second tomo is sitting on the far end.
- Kinin can sit in the middle this way and can do the left/right tatami thing.
Another option:
- Kinin in the same position as above.
- Tomo facing the kinin. One tomo facing the kinin on the far end of the kyaku-datami, the other sitting in what would be the kariza position for kagetsu.
Tatami usage
(For L / R, consider the position if you are facing the kinin).
Host side always sits on the left tatami (teishu, hanto). Kinin side always sits on the right tatami (tomo). However, dougu atsukai is always done by the kinin on the left tatami (their right).