All the preparations for Hatsugama paid off and the celebration for the New Year was a great success. 8 guests in two seki attended. The display in the tokonoma included kagami mochi and blue ceramic goishi kogo.
The scroll read “Haku un onozuakara kyorai zu” White clouds come and go of their own accord, by Edo Shimano Roshi, of Daibosatsu.
Yoshino dana with korai seiji mizusashi by Renkyu Ri and red natsume with horses running around the rim. The chaire was Bizen katatsuki by Sasaki Kaiho, shifuku It? kando
Kama in okiro, Amidado shape, matsu jimon (pine motif) by Seiho.
Tenshin meal and nimono of seasonal foods
Sweets, Rikyu manju, poetic name “galloping horse”
Koicha served in a black raku style bowl by Richard Brandt, chamei kashin no mukashi, Zabosai Oiemoto konomi, from Kanbayashi. Chashaku– pink ivory wood, by Barbara Walker, gomei – daidai (generation to geneeration. Higashi, gift from Nomura-san, served on tamenuri lacquered yohobon. Usucha hana no shiro from Kanbayashi, omojawan, grey hagi, kyoyaki kazu chawan.
First seki
Second seki