TeaLife Audio

Hosts - Adam - Marius - Damian - Anthony Poem 喚鐘は大と小とに中々に大と、五ツの数を打つ也

Strike a gong or like To end your guests' respite The pattern is five: Starting first with a strike strong then weak, mid, mid, ending strong

Main Topic - What to do with old dogu Information referenced - http://patreon.com/tealife - http://tealife.audio/support

Host: - Adam - Marius - Anthony

Guests: - Ula - Ole Marius

Poem 小板にて濃茶を立てば茶巾をば小板の端に置く物ぞ可し Where sits the chakin During the thick tea rite? At the brazier's feet The front edge of the small board Presents itself as a seat

Topic - Robiraki

Information referenced: 端的底看聻 - Mawari sumi saying

Hosts:

- Adam

- Marius

- Damian

- Anthony

Poem:

餘所などに花を贈らば、其の花は開き過ぎしを遣らぬ物也 yoso nado ni hana wo okuraba, sono hana wa hiraki sugishi wo yaranu mono nari Flowers in full bloom; An unwelcome gift to the Host of chanoyu - How should one hide their distaste When the alcove is wilting?

Main Topic: Nakaoki

Information referenced:

The one Taste of Truth: Zen and the Art of Drinking Tea

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Host

• Adam
• Marius

Main Topic - Naming a chashaku

Information referenced:

- Book: Zen Sand

Hosts - Adam - Marius - Anthony

Poem 水指に手桶出さば、手は橫に、前の蓋取り先に重ねよ mizusashi ni toke daseba, te wa yoko ni, mae no futa tori saki ni kasane yo

Should a teoke Be used for the water jar Orientate the Handle side-to-side and rest The front lid on the far lid

Main topic - Keeping records

Hosts - Marius

Guest - Rebecca

Main Topic - Women in tea -

Information referenced:

Books

Corbett, Rebecca. Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan. (Forthcoming) Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, Spring, 2018.

Guth, Christine. Art, Tea, and Industry: Masuda Takashi and the Mitsui Circle. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1993. http://amzn.to/2xKpeMj

Kato, Etsuko. The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan: Bodies Re-Presenting the Past. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004. http://amzn.to/2xeQxga

Pitelka, Morgan. Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in Japan. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2005. http://amzn.to/2wp5ZaR

Pitelka, Morgan, ed. Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History, and Practice. New York: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. http://amzn.to/2xb0QA9

Pitelka, Morgan. Spectacular Accumulation: Material Culture, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Samurai Sociability. Honolulu: University of Hawai`i Press, 2016. http://amzn.to/2xKFsEW

Surak, Kristin. Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2013. http://amzn.to/2xeFvaJ Kindle: http://amzn.to/2xJx2xK

Journal articles

Corbett, Rebecca. "Crafting Identity as a Tea Practitioner in Early Modern Japan: Ōtagaki Rengetsu and Tagami Kikusha." U.S.-Japan Women's Journal 47 (2014): 3–27.

Corbett, Rebecca. "Learning to Be Graceful: Tea in Early Modern Guides for Women's Edification." Japanese Studies 29 (2009): 81–94.

Pitelka, Morgan. "Tea Taste: Patronage and Collaboration among Tea Masters and Potters in Early Modern Japan." Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal (Fall–Winter, 2004): 26–38. http://hdl.handle.net/1811/5825

Rath, Eric C. "Reevaluating Rikyū: Kaiseki and the Origins of Japanese Cuisine." Journal of Japanese Studies 39, no. 1 (2013): 67–96.

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Hosts

• Marius
• Aaron
• Adam
• Anthony

Guest

• Ula

茶入、又茶筌の曲尺をよくも知れ、跡に殘せる道具目當に chaire, mata chasen no kane wo yoku mo shire, ato ni nokoseru dōgu meate ni Understand well the Placement of the chaire and next the chasen For as they are used in turn One guides the other's return

Main Topic - Incense -

Information referenced:

• Adams new page http://uedasokochanoyu.com
• Marius new url http://dogu.store
• Zukoh
  • Marius Store
  • Shoyeido
• Midorikai Alumnai event in Kyoto June 26–30, 2018, For more information contact [email protected]
• Anthonys Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/chanobi.tea/

Hosts

• Adam
• Marius
• Anthony

Poem

hakobi-date mizusashi oku wa yoko-datami futatsu wari nite mannaka ni oke

When carrying and Placing the fresh water jar Divide the depth of The mat into two halves and Place the water on centre

Main Topic: Making Changes

Information Referenced

• Hosts Instagram account:
  • Adam
  • Marius
  • Anthony
• Zen Sand
• Marius 3D Printed Dogu.Store

Hosts:

- Adam

- Marius

Guest:

- Rhonda

置合せ心を付けて見るぞ可し、袋の縫目 疊目に置け okiawase kokoro wo tsukete miru zo kashi, fukuro no nui-me tatami-me ni oke

Place equipage Together with discerning eyes - Such care to align The seam of a caddy's pouch With the weaves of tatami

Main topic: Making Ash

Hosts: - Adam - Marius - Anthony

姥口は圍爐裏緣より六 七分低く据えるぞ習いなりける ubaguchi wa irori-buchi yori roku nana bu hikuku sueru zo narai narikeri

For a kama with A mouth like a toothless hag Sink it below the Hearth frame by six or seven bu Learn this well at practic

Main Topic - Tea Preparation - And Leg Preservation