Edo Senke Master

[aimeekitty]

I occasionally take Japanese tea ceremony classes (Edo Senke) with my kimono sensei, Mme. Akutagawa. (that's her in the pink kimono with the black obi. Her obi has tea items on it!) My kitsuke is more well practiced than my tea, though... (which is not really saying much) I don't think I've done tea ceremony in 8 months due to being so busy, and well frankly, my knee injury isn't really well enough to sit in seiza for that long -_-.

I didn't want to miss today though, because the Grand Master's son (of Edo Senke) was coming to give us special lessons. He came all the way from Japan and brought a team and a whole tea table with him. I mostly just watched because I'm so out of practice, but it was interesting! I wore my purple weeping cherry kimono at my sensei's suggestion.

I'm not sure if he did it intentionally... but doesn't the Grand Master's son's hakama/kimono coordination look like green tea? He had a snowflake embroidered as his mon on the back of his kimono. The snowflake is the symbol for our school of tea.


I thought AJ would appreciate this man's tea purse (Fukusabasami). Doesn't it look like a cow? Normally they're made out of decorative kimono fabrics, etc...

Here's a quick shot of my fan, Fukusa and Kobukusa. See the snowflake design?

Comments

[scruffyrebel.livejournal.com]

ooooo that must be such a great thing to experience.

[kellyhime.livejournal.com]

What a lovely scene! I've never heard of the Edo Senke school, but it's so nice the you got to have a special lesson from the Grand Master's son. I really like the girl on the left's kimono and obi combination.

I really miss studying tea too. I went to one of the demonstrations of my school -- Omote Senke -- this weekend at the Nihonmachi Sakura Matsuri. I couldn't believe how difficult it looked after so long! I did hear that my sensei is still teaching, even though she had a stroke and is 97 years old, and I'm very tempted to see about starting lessons again this summer.

[caerbannog.livejournal.com]

How pretty! That looks like such a wonderful experience. It's things like this that make me envy life out on the west coast.

[taeha.livejournal.com]

How lovely! And it reminds me, did you see these cases on Strapya? http://www.strapya-world.com/categories/12_34_566.html

[rishu.livejournal.com]

The kimono are so pretty! That hakama outfit is so so handsome.

What are the fukusa and the kobukusa for?