Hatsugama at Issoan Tea room started on Saturday January 3 with teachers and experienced tea people. Sunday January 4, there were three seki for students.
Upon entering guests were seated in the machiai. When the hosts were ready the guests were served osayu and invited to use the tsukubai and proceed to the tea room.
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I’d like to introduce to you a guest blogger, Stephanie. She is a student and has been studying for more than 2 1/2 years. Earlier this year, she put on her first chakai:
Earlier this year I hosted my first chakai (tea gathering) for a fellow student who was returning to Japan. It was fitting …
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The students from Issoan Tea put on their summer chakai last weekend. I am going to post photos and kaiki. It was a playful twist to the theme.
Here is a photo of the invitation: “Stretches for light years, Satellites transmitting A mass of pitch black.” by James, published by NASA’s Going to Mars Campaign …
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Today I had the lucky opportunity of hosting a chakai for people that I had never met. However these two people had traveled many thousands of miles from North and East of here to be my guests. They were graduates of the Midorikai program in Kyoto and attended about 5 years before I had gone …
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