2025 年 4月
私がセントルイスに戻る前に、伏見の林先生の元へしばらくお会いできない旨のご挨拶に伺いました。
先生はコロナの終焉以降、お茶のお稽古場を閉じられています。。。
その際に、以前から皆具の作製をセントルイスの陶芸家に依頼しているけれど、未だに納品してもらえないという話題になりましたら、先生がお持ちの皆具一式を持たせてくださいました。
道中割れないように、丁寧に梱包しなおしてセントルイスまで運んできました。
その皆具のお披露目の長板薄茶炉点前のおけいこでした。
Before returning to St. Louis, I visited Hayashi senses in Fushimi to say goodbye, as I wouldn’t be able to see her for a while. Since the end of the COVID pandemic, she has closed her tea ceremony practice …
During our conversation, the topic came up that I had asked a potter in St. Louis to create a set of tea utensils (kaigu), but they still hadn’t been delivered. In response, she kindly entrusted me with a full set of her own kaigu. I carefully repacked them to ensure they wouldn’t break during transport, and brought them back to St. Louis.
Our recent tea practice was a nagata (long-board) usucha hearth procedure to unveil and make use of those utensils.
During our conversation, the topic came up that I had asked a potter in St. Louis to create a set of tea utensils (kaigu), but they still hadn’t been delivered. In response, she kindly entrusted me with a full set of her own kaigu. I carefully repacked them to ensure they wouldn’t break during transport, and brought them back to St. Louis.
Our recent tea practice was a nagata (long-board) usucha hearth procedure to unveil and make use of those utensils.
