Japanese Tea Ceremony Props and Procedures

Japanese tea ceremony again has a cumbersome procedure, a whole set of tea tasting process down to about 4 hours or so, in the current high rhythm of urban life, tea ceremony takes up a lot of time, so it will be more solemn and precious.

The process of the tea ceremony is mainly divided into dressing, viewing the tea garden, the first tea, tea food, neutrality, strong tea, after the charcoal, thin tea, exit, articulation, etc., of which the strong tea is the most important part, and the specific way varies according to different schools of the tea ceremony.

About the most important tea props, the Internet's various introductions are also more confusing, I do my best to organize it ......

Broadly speaking, tea props include reception utensils, tea table utensils, courtyard utensils, and tea washer utensils.

Reception utensils mainly include hanging axle characters, axle paintings, smoking utensils, tea bowls and so on.

The utensils for tea ceremony mainly include the utensils for decorating niches, the utensils for charcoal ceremony, the utensils for tea ceremony, and the utensils for kaiseki meal.

The tea ceremony utensils include niche decorating utensils, hanging scrolls, and vases.

The charcoal ritual utensils include kettles, tea stoves, incense boxes, ash ware, and charcoal buckets.

Tea ceremony ritual utensils include shelves, water bowls, tea bowls, tea pots. Tea utensils, tea ladles, cover sets, and kensui (containers that hold water that is not used after shabu-shabu washing of the tea bowl. They are mostly made of earthenware or round boxes made of thin pieces of wood).

Inside the courtyard, the utensils include a straw walker, a round pedestal, a ladle for inside the courtyard, a bucket and a water house (a place for washing tea utensils in the corner of the tea room), and the utensils include a gong, a kettle, a tea towel basin, a round bamboo brush (a brush for stirring up and foaming the end of the tea), a tea towel, and a ladle, etc. The tea house is also a place for washing tea.

Tea props in a narrow sense refers only to the cooler, tea bowl, tea cups, tea pots, tea kettles, tea spoons, tea into the (tea bottle), and even some people will be the tea bowl itself is called tea props.

Cool stove: mainly used to boil water for tea making, the requirement of water is boiling.

Tea Bowls: made of pottery, the most important tea utensils and tea ceremony appreciation props, but also in Japan is one of the most numerous, the most varied tea utensils. In order to keep in line with the tea ceremony "no" heart, and does not advocate the use of gorgeous tea bowl. In the eyes of Japanese tea drinkers, the best tea bowls are often the ceramic rice bowls used by Koreans to eat ......

Tea kettle: the cooler mentioned earlier is used to boil water, and the tea kettle is a small pot used to hold water. Japanese tea kettles are famous for their thousands of colors.

Cha-In (Tea Bottle): Based on the description on the internet, I guess it is a tea bottle, which is a small jar used to hold the powder of tea leaves. It is rumored to have been the first container used in China to hold gunpowder or kerosene ...... The Japanese drink tea by crushing the tea leaves into a powder called matcha and then infusing it with water. Strong tea has the consistency of thin gruel, while thin tea has the consistency of coffee, which I find hard to swallow when I think about it ......

Tea spoon: a small, long-handled spoon used to scoop up powdered tea, standardized to one teaspoon = 4.68 grams.

Tea cups: the online introduction confused me, the tea bowl is both a prop for reception and for drinking tea, so what are tea cups used for? And before the Warring States period, there is no information about the teacups of any records, is it the late gradually replaced the bowl of convenient tea utensils? Or is it that different tea ceremony schools use different tea utensils?

Teapot: a container used for tea.