Tea Ceremony
I joined the tea ceremony on 7 March. This was for beginners but traditional Japanese things except sitting on a chair.
I was bit late to arrive the venue. Sensei, a tea master, has finished explaining ways of taking sweet, make tea from matcha, powdered green tea, and drinking matcha. When I arrived, the other participants, friends of mine, started taking sweets. I was the last person to take sweet. After that, they made and drank tea.
I observed this class in January, but things were so different between observing and doing. I tried to follow sensei's instruction, but I found it hard. She also explained background information. Organisers make arrangement for the ceremony with their own intentions. Initially they set up idea, shukou, for the ceremony. One of the examples is to celebrate spring coming. Based on ideas, they set up the venue, e.g flower arrangement and selecting tea bowls. These items reflect organisers' ideas. All are integrated.
Sweet was a Japanese sweet, rice and red beans. Not too sweet one.
Sensei also told us that there are two types of matcha, thick tea, koicha and thin tea, usucha. We took thin tea at this time. There are some schools of Japanese tea ceremony. In particular san-senke, three senkes, are very famous. Namely Omote-senke, Ura-senke, and Mushanokoji-senke. Different school masters make different tea. It is like make burbles when they make tea. It was not easy to make burble. After drinking tea, participants also look at tea bowl. Some tea bowls are pretty expensive.
According to sensei, making tea reflects your feeling. It is quite good to reflect what I am in my mind. Tea ceremony is an opportunity for a kind of meditation.
I was bit late to arrive the venue. Sensei, a tea master, has finished explaining ways of taking sweet, make tea from matcha, powdered green tea, and drinking matcha. When I arrived, the other participants, friends of mine, started taking sweets. I was the last person to take sweet. After that, they made and drank tea.
I observed this class in January, but things were so different between observing and doing. I tried to follow sensei's instruction, but I found it hard. She also explained background information. Organisers make arrangement for the ceremony with their own intentions. Initially they set up idea, shukou, for the ceremony. One of the examples is to celebrate spring coming. Based on ideas, they set up the venue, e.g flower arrangement and selecting tea bowls. These items reflect organisers' ideas. All are integrated.
Sweet was a Japanese sweet, rice and red beans. Not too sweet one.
Sensei also told us that there are two types of matcha, thick tea, koicha and thin tea, usucha. We took thin tea at this time. There are some schools of Japanese tea ceremony. In particular san-senke, three senkes, are very famous. Namely Omote-senke, Ura-senke, and Mushanokoji-senke. Different school masters make different tea. It is like make burbles when they make tea. It was not easy to make burble. After drinking tea, participants also look at tea bowl. Some tea bowls are pretty expensive.
