Again, Marius. What a wonderful resource you have made available. Also, I find it very enjoyable just to watch the temae, the camera work is excellent.
You seem quite tall, i am impressed you could actually find a Kimono which fits you and even if you had it order made. i am still surprised they made Tanmono now with a width large enough to cover entire arm. I am 198cm myself and i have never been able to find a Kimono which fits me and the ones i have had made when living in Japan, were made especially large by adding an extra band of fabric to the sleeve, meaning that for each Kimono i have had made i had to order two Tanmono. Are you also using a Han Haba Obi as a man's Kako Obi ?
I'm 180cm. Some of my kimonos are a bit short in the sleves, but within accaptable. It seems to vary a bit from time to time. I believe that is due to the skill of the tailor, in how much of the fabric width is used up for seams. This is very important when your my hight as there is just barely enough fabric to manage. I know that in the past it was possible to get wider fabrics, but it seems that alot of the supporting crafts people surronding the kimono trade is going out of business and the number of choices are declining. The obi is a regular mans obi with a regular knot for Kyoto area.
@@Warigeiko You couldn't be more right. The Kimono trade is dying very quickly, between the lack of apprentices and the fact that now cheaper silks are imported from China and that even "professional" cheap chinese wasai tailors propose to make kimono for a small fraction of the price you'd pay for in Japan (with the excruciatingly bad quality of the finished product to match). Kyoto still tries to resist but the rest of the country is slowly giving up. You can still find one craftsman in Kyoto and one in Tokyo who weave fabric for Sumo wrestler. The fabrics are quite expensive but they are 43 to 46 cm in width which is enough to fit any body type, height and arm length. You have excellent taste in paring Kimono and Obi.
This temae is part of the second level of temae in Urasenke, Konarai. There are a few reasons for doing this temae. One of them is that you have a small natsume that you want to use for one reason or the other. Another, maybe less obvious, reason is if you have a nice ceramic vessel you really want to use for usucha then to not have two ceramic tea containers you might want to use a natsume for koicha.
@@charlesmendeley9823 The bowl is a copy of one of chojiro's bowls. It is made by Tamamizu Yaheibei 15th generation. Not sure of the name of the bowl that it copies.
Seven temae, including this one, can do nakajimai. However, you can also choose to do honjimae for these seven if you want to. Usually, you would not do nakajimai in a koma, which this is recorded in. The last fact I forgot to think about. So for this 3 mat room, Otsukuburo should probably be honjimae, but most teachers will tell you that otsubukuro is always nakajimae even though it is an option to do nakajimae not a mandate.
My wife do not practice chanoyu. She joins me on occasion in the tea room. She is probably one of the few people in the world that has attended more chajis than okeikos :P as we have added chaji into many of the traditional Norwegian family holidays. For instance for the last few new years celebrations we have had a chaji starting on the "old" year, and had a break between koicha and gozumi to watch fireworks and drink champagne, before returning to the tea room in the "new" year and sturing the glowing embers from the "old" year into a fire and having usucha.
@@Warigeiko That is nice, you are an inspiration, my Shachu turned me on to your video, she was very impressed by you. We just got film for a program on NHK world on Tuesday this week, I will forward picture of our group to you via Facebook
Again, Marius. What a wonderful resource you have made available. Also, I find it very enjoyable just to watch the temae, the camera work is excellent.
I will to do OTSUBUKURO in the next KEIKO.
Thank you for teaching me!
I wii do my best.
ありがとー(^^)
Best of luck!
You seem quite tall, i am impressed you could actually find a Kimono which fits you and even if you had it order made. i am still surprised they made Tanmono now with a width large enough to cover entire arm.
I am 198cm myself and i have never been able to find a Kimono which fits me and the ones i have had made when living in Japan, were made especially large by adding an extra band of fabric to the sleeve, meaning that for each Kimono i have had made i had to order two Tanmono.
Are you also using a Han Haba Obi as a man's Kako Obi ?
I'm 180cm. Some of my kimonos are a bit short in the sleves, but within accaptable. It seems to vary a bit from time to time. I believe that is due to the skill of the tailor, in how much of the fabric width is used up for seams. This is very important when your my hight as there is just barely enough fabric to manage.
I know that in the past it was possible to get wider fabrics, but it seems that alot of the supporting crafts people surronding the kimono trade is going out of business and the number of choices are declining.
The obi is a regular mans obi with a regular knot for Kyoto area.
@@Warigeiko You couldn't be more right. The Kimono trade is dying very quickly, between the lack of apprentices and the fact that now cheaper silks are imported from China and that even "professional" cheap chinese wasai tailors propose to make kimono for a small fraction of the price you'd pay for in Japan (with the excruciatingly bad quality of the finished product to match).
Kyoto still tries to resist but the rest of the country is slowly giving up.
You can still find one craftsman in Kyoto and one in Tokyo who weave fabric for Sumo wrestler. The fabrics are quite expensive but they are 43 to 46 cm in width which is enough to fit any body type, height and arm length.
You have excellent taste in paring Kimono and Obi.
Koicha prepared from a natsume!
Is this done when one simply wishes to use a special natsume, or for certain occasions?
Exceptional video!
This temae is part of the second level of temae in Urasenke, Konarai.
There are a few reasons for doing this temae. One of them is that you have a small natsume that you want to use for one reason or the other.
Another, maybe less obvious, reason is if you have a nice ceramic vessel you really want to use for usucha then to not have two ceramic tea containers you might want to use a natsume for koicha.
@@Warigeiko Thank you so much for the detailed information!
That is such a beautiful bowl, too! Is it locally made? Or Japanese import?
Thank you for your videos! Big fan from Hawaii~
The bowl is a copy of one of Chojiros teabowls made by Tamamizu Yaheibei, so not local.
@@Warigeiko Is the teabowl a copy of the Honkakubou?
@@charlesmendeley9823 The bowl is a copy of one of chojiro's bowls. It is made by Tamamizu Yaheibei 15th generation. Not sure of the name of the bowl that it copies.
I am Japanese living in Tokyo. I am learning Edo Senke. There are some differences because the sects are different, but your “otemae “ is great！
Thank you! I hope you find the videos useful even though your learning a different school.
It looks like you have done "nakajimai" 中仕舞い. Which one is correct?
Seven temae, including this one, can do nakajimai. However, you can also choose to do honjimae for these seven if you want to. Usually, you would not do nakajimai in a koma, which this is recorded in. The last fact I forgot to think about. So for this 3 mat room, Otsukuburo should probably be honjimae, but most teachers will tell you that otsubukuro is always nakajimae even though it is an option to do nakajimae not a mandate.
@@Warigeiko Oh, so complicated.
@@hanaazuki7396 the easy work around is to always use honjimae as that is always a correct option.
Does you your wife practice tea with you?
My wife do not practice chanoyu. She joins me on occasion in the tea room. She is probably one of the few people in the world that has attended more chajis than okeikos :P as we have added chaji into many of the traditional Norwegian family holidays. For instance for the last few new years celebrations we have had a chaji starting on the "old" year, and had a break between koicha and gozumi to watch fireworks and drink champagne, before returning to the tea room in the "new" year and sturing the glowing embers from the "old" year into a fire and having usucha.
@@Warigeiko That is nice, you are an inspiration, my Shachu turned me on to your video, she was very impressed by you. We just got film for a program on NHK world on Tuesday this week, I will forward picture of our group to you via Facebook