お茶会 The Tea Ceremony

お久しぶりです。　しばらく更新しない間にすっかり冬になってしまいました。
研究所で２つの調査の仕事が重なったので忙しかったです。

浅草寺の本坊「伝法院」でお茶会がありました。
娘が茶道を習っているお教室も参加したので、アメリカからの留学生２人を連れて行きました。私も学生時代に習いましたが、すっかり作法を忘れていて新鮮な気持ちでお抹茶を頂きました。大勢のお客様の前でお茶を立てた娘はかなり緊張したようでした。表千家と裏千家の両方で頂きましたが、それぞれの特徴が出ていて興味深かったです。留学生も初めての経験で喜んでくれました。足はしびれたようでしたが・・・。

Long time no see. It has turned to winter while I haven’t updated this blog.
I had two research works at the institute, so I was busy.

There was a tea ceremony at Denpoin in Sensoji-temple at Asakusa.
I took two international students from the U.S. to the tea ceremony because I was participating in my daughter’s teacher class. I also learned when I was a student, but I forgot a lot and when I drank the Matcha it was like the first time. My daughter who was wearing kimono was very nervous when she performed the tea ceremony because there were many guests. We had tea at both the Omote-senke and Ura-senke rooms. It was interesting seeing the different features of the rooms. The international students enjoyed their first experience attending the tea ceremony. But they lost feeling in their feet…