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Tea?
Oct 29, 2004 11:44:22 GMT -5
Post by yoshida on Oct 29, 2004 11:44:22 GMT -5
How many people within the SCA practice tea ceremony? I've been interested in learning more about it and have some basic over views of it and am wanting to expend myself culturaly from being a simple bushi. Does anyone have any pointers or advice?
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Tea?
Oct 29, 2004 12:15:54 GMT -5
Post by Hiroda Ujio on Oct 29, 2004 12:15:54 GMT -5
While never actually having partaken in the ceremony myself i was able to ask a few questions to a person who has done so on several occasions. Her advice to me was:
1. It's cool, you'll like it. 2. Prepare to be there for a few hours.
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Solveig Throndardottir
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Tea?
Oct 31, 2004 18:41:45 GMT -5
Post by Solveig Throndardottir on Oct 31, 2004 18:41:45 GMT -5
Noble Cousin!
Greetings from Solveig! I know of at least four people in the Society who practice tea ceremony to some extent or another.
1) There is a fellow in An Tir who I am told graduated from the Urasenke tea college in Kyouto. If that is that is the case, he is one of highest level tea masters in the mundane world.
2) There is a Baron of my brief aquaitance.
3) As I recall, there is a fellow In Lochac who is a professor of Japanese Studies who also does tea.
4) There is also my most unworthy self. I studied tea in Tokyo for about five or so yeas receiving only a menjo through chabako.
There is a mundane email list for tea ceremony. I forget how I discovered it. While there are books which illustrate temae, and I recommend the something like 15 volume text series published by Tankosha, you are unlikely to succeed unless you learn with a teacher.
As for the length of tea. Tea can be quite long. While department store tea demonstrations may be over in less than 15 minutes or so, a chaji can easily take four or five hours. My most special tea experience was a winter chaji with snow outside. About twelve guests, a host, and an assistant were gathered in a 4.5 mat tea room. It was a beautiful experience
A maxim of tea is "ichi go ichi e" which pretty much means "one time one meeting" The ide is this one time is the only time that we will meet quite like this. Essentially, the present moment in the tea room is what counts.
Your Humble Servant Solveig Throndardottir Amateur Scholar
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Tea?
Oct 31, 2004 23:26:15 GMT -5
Post by yoshida on Oct 31, 2004 23:26:15 GMT -5
When are tea ceremonies most commonly performed? How can I be able to serve tea as a host in a relaxig setting as a causal type of thing to unwind with friends on a semi-casual/semi-formal affair? While I may not be able to ever find someone to teach me the ceremony of tea, I will be able to get a bunch of reading material about it. I just don't want to look like too much of an idiot if I have the chance to have a small private gathering with refreshments in a relaxing atmosphere with a dash of asthetics......
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Saionji Shonagon
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One dreamed of becoming somebody. Another remained awake and became. (Found in a fortune cookie.)
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Tea?
Nov 1, 2004 13:21:35 GMT -5
Post by Saionji Shonagon on Nov 1, 2004 13:21:35 GMT -5
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Tea?
Nov 1, 2004 18:10:32 GMT -5
Post by raito on Nov 1, 2004 18:10:32 GMT -5
If that website is to be believed, the civil wars ended in 1392 ;D
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