#mizuya

[swdefcult]

alita by mizuya

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'24.6.11 手向山八幡宮、水谷茶屋、春日大社、浅茅ヶ原にて

前回投稿の続編、枚数多めｗ

手向さんから春日大社を経由して再度浅茅ヶ原へ。カラスさんや小鳥さん、茶屋の茅葺や春日さんの柱まで、やはりこの日はごきげん麗しく感じられました。もちろん子鹿ちゃんもニコニコと元気。

こんな日は写活後のお昼ご飯も美味しいｗ

[redsamuraiii]

A Perfect Nara Day Trip by Mei Time

Mizuya Chaya. 🍜

[chelseafcazul]

San Francisco Transitional Dining Room

Image of a large transitional great room with gray flooring and yellow walls.

[inland-shivers]

Please draw my Sonic OC, Achiko Mizuya (Aka. Acht (Ah-chit) the Octogirl, and yes, she's 4th member of the Team Chaotix of Vector the Crocodile, Espio the Chameleon, & Charmy Bee <3)

The most human-looking cephalopod I've ever drawn.

[chanoyu-to-wa]

The Chanoyu Hyaku-shu [茶湯百首], Part III:  Poem 52.

〽 Hakobi-date mizusashi oku ha yoko-datami          futatsu-wari ni te mannaka ni oke 

    [運び立て水指置くは橫疊          二ツ割りにて眞中に置け].

    “With respect to the spot where [you] place a mizusashi that is carried into the room, the width of the tatami is divided into two, [and the mizusashi is] placed in the exact middle of them.”

    This poem, which refers to the hakobi-temae [運び手前]¹ (a practice originally associated with the ro where all of the utensils, except the kama, were brought out from the katte at the beginning of the temae, and all taken away again at the end²), is self-explanatory.

    On an occasion when the mizusashi³ is carried out at the beginning of the temae (in other words, after the guests have taken their seats), the host should center it on the utensil mat between the heri.

    This poem is found in the sources associated with Rikyū (including the collection that dates back to Hosokawa Sansai, which has been preserved as the Kyūshū manuscript), indicating that he was the likely author of the poem.

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¹According to Rikyū’s own writings, the so-called hakobi-temae [運び手前] (which he created*) should be performed only in a larger room (it is most suited to a wabi-style 4.5-mat room) -- because it involves the host returning to the katte again and again as he brings each of the utensils out to the utensil mat.  In contrast, in the small room, the host should keep his entrances and exits to the absolute minimum possible -- by arranging most of the utensils on the tsuri-dana, in the dōko, or on the utensil mat itself. __________ *Rikyū performed this temae for the first time on the occasion of Jōō’s initial visit to Rikyū’s home (at the beginning of their relationship), following Jōō’s purchase of Rikyū’s collection of tea utensils.

    After taking away Rikyū’s imported treasures, Jōō replaced the most essential of them with several utensils that could only be used in an extremely wabi setting (such as Yoshimasa’s shin-teoke [眞手桶], which was not a “real” mizusashi; and the Shukō-chawan [珠光茶碗], which was already cracked and had been repaired with same-colored lacquer).  Rikyū included these objects in his tori-awase on that occasion.

²The temae is self-deprecatory, in that the host is behaving as if none of the utensils that he will be using to serve tea are worthy of being displayed in the room.  They are brought out only so that they can be used, and then taken away immediately thereafter -- originally without haiken.

³While today ordinary ceramic mizusashi are commonly used in the hakobi-temae, in Rikyū’s hakobi-temae the mizusashi was always something like a kiji-tsurube or a shin-teoke*.

    When a mizusashi was carried into the room, the rule was that it was supposed to be filled to no more than 70% of its capacity.  Now these two kinds of mizusashi were, by design, intended to be used for transporting water -- the tsurube was the vessel in which water was carried from the well to the mizuya, and the teoke was the vessel in which (washing) water was taken from the well to the residential apartments.  Thus, the idea was that the water contained in them was “all you get” -- that is, there was never any idea that the water in the tsurube or teoke would be augmented at any point after they were carried away from the well (particularly after they had been carried out to the utensil-mat).  And when these two mizusashi were carried out, (in the case of a 4.5-mat room†) the host walked onto the utensil mat, and put the mizusashi down on the mat from a squatting position.

    All of this contrasts with the way other mizusashi were handled, since in the other cases the mizusashi was moved forward from the foot of the utensil mat in steps, with the host being seated on the mat throughout.  And after it was put into its final place, the host was supposed to return to the katte and bring out a mizu-tsugi, from which the mizusashi would be filled to 90% of its capacity prior to the beginning of the temae‡.  It was both because of this necessary second step, and because ceramic or metal mizusashi were expensive, and so unsuited to the wabi setting, that the preference was for the tsurube or teoke when serving tea in this way**. ___________ *The first time Rikyū performed the temae -- when serving tea to Jōō -- he used the shin-teoke that had been used by Yoshimasa during the period of his second retirement (since this was the mizusashi that Jōō gave him when he took away all of Rikyū’s treasured utensils).  On subsequent occasions when performing this temae, Rikyū seems to have preferred a kiji-tsurube.

†To repeat what was said in footnote 1, the hakobi-temae was created for, and intended to be employed in, the wabi-style 4.5-mat room.

‡Unlike what is taught today, originally water was added to the mizusashi at the beginning of the temae, filling the mizusashi to 90% of its capacity, so the host would not run out of water during his temae.  Adding more water at the end of the temae was meaningless (except, perhaps, when other guests would be received at an ato-mi chakai [跡見茶會] -- a sort of mini-chakai that sometimes followed an ordinary gathering, the purpose of which was to allow one or more other people to look at the utensils, and the disposition of the room, usually following a gathering that had been hosted for an honored shōkyaku), and so usually not done.

    The current practice appears to date from an occasion when one of the early Iemoto was challenged for not adding water to the mizusashi from a mizu-tsugi, and he responded by bringing out a mizu-tsugi and adding water at the end -- and this then became the fixed way of doing things.

**The modern schools generally teach that the mizusashi is supposed to be centered on the half-mat not only side-to-side but front-to-back also.  The original rule was that the mizusashi took its seat according to the same rules used when placing the fukuro-dana on the mat:  depending on the other utensils that were going to be used (such as the size of the chaire-bon), the mizusashi was supposed to be either 8-sun or 1-shaku 2-sun back from the corner of the ro -- with the former position being most common.  Centering the mizusashi front-to-back would more closely approximate the latter placement.

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[toastedbutterbrick]

Please draw my Sonic OC, Achiko Mizuya the Octogirl (Aka. Acht (Ah-chit) Dedf1sh the Octogirl and yes, she's 4th member of the Team Chaotix of Vector the Crocodile, Espio the Chameleon, & Charmy Bee <3)

I LOVE HERRR <3333

[aprikotea]

The Tea Party!!!

I had to get up at 4am because I was meeting my teacher at 6:30am. Everyone was wearing a kimono on that day, so I had bought a 2nd-hand kimono as well. But since I am in no way able to put it on myself, I met my teacher early in the morning, so she and another fellow student could dress me.

The tea party took place at a temple in Kita-Kamakura - the same one where I attended my first tea party as a guest in summer. Around 8am everyone else was arriving and we were allowed to join a ceremony with the monks.

9:00 AM - The First Session Starts

Each session one of us would perform the temae we were practicing the last weeks. And the other ones would help in the mizuya - preparing or cleaning stuff - or as hanto - bringing the sweets plates and tea bowls in and out of the tea room. My teacher would sit close to the exit of the tea room and talk to the guests. Each session took 45 minutes and consisted of 12 guests. We had 9 sessions, so we served 108 guests in total.

The guests were kind of random people. The temple announced on their website that they’ll hold a tea ceremony and people could apply for a seat. Some of them were acquaintances of our teachers, like other teachers and their students. But for most of us students they were unknown people.

Each and everyone of us was super nervous. Therefore, the first session was the toughest one. But everyone was putting in their hearts and we improved tiny details with each session. Since it would take a lot of time to prepare 12 bowl of matcha by the temae in side the tea room, they would only prepare the matcha for the first and second guest, also known as shokyaku and jikyaku. The matcha for the third guest and everyone else would be prepared in the mizuya. As hanto, which is basically an assistant, each session started quite busy, because we would bring in the sweets plates and had to pick them up a few moments later. Afterwards, we had kind of a waiting period until it was time to prepare additional matcha bowls. And then it would get quite busy again, since we had to bring the bowls in the tea room and of course pick them up again.

12:00 PM - My Turn

Just two sessions before it was my turn to be temae, I started to get super nervous. At some point it sat down and went through all the steps in my head and kind of mimicked the movements with my hands. One of the older students told me, that there's no need to do that and it'll all go well. And it kind of did. At the beginning I almost dropped the hishaku. But besides that, I made no bigger mistake. At one point, I realised I took the tea bowl with the wrong hand. But than I remembered what one of my teacher told me: If you notice you make a mistake, just act like you didn't and it's just "how we do things". And well, nobody probably even noticed it. My teacher also talked with the guests about me not being Japanese but still having a big passion for tea ceremony. She even praised my teacher in Germany and myself as well. This was a little awkward while being in the room, but I might just not be good with compliments in general.

Afterwards, I got a little break which we all took in turns. We had ordered bentos with some traditional Japanese food for that day. I was lucky to have my temae session before eating. I guess otherwise I would have not been able to get any food into my body.

4:00 PM - Finally Done

Around 4pm we finished the last session and everyone got really happy and relaxed. We talked about everything that happened, took pictures, drank matcha and also started to tidy everything up. My teachers and a lot of the guest brought some gifts for us, which we divided into little bags to take them home. And by 6pm most of us left the temple and started our way back home.

Overall the whole day was really exciting, but it was also exhausting. I hold so many precious memories, learned so many new things and got a little bit closer with everyone.

[undeadedge]

Another oc drawing.

This is my oc with the longest name so we’ll just call them Mizuya (Hinode Mizuya)

They’re a trans oc, since I love to make my oc’s trans.

They have a moon birthmark on their forehead.

He has a lot of piercings too, I didn’t draw them except for the septum piercing.

He has his own storyline but I’m also using him for a bnha fic so I guess that’s cool too.

He’s probably my second favorite oc along with his family, I love them a lot.

I hope this drawing was good :D I’m really proud of it

Their shirt says 晴れの日

晴れ - はれ - Hare - Sunny

日 - ひ - Hi- Day

の - no - possessive particle/made hare an adjective

(Please correct me if I’m wrong with my Japanese I’m always willing to learn)

[nemo-of-house-hamartia]

I have done many crossovers in my life, but probably the one that was THE MOST "whimsical" in terms of how different the two medias I decided to connect was the one where i took a character that I created for Tekken (my Mizuya Mishima, Kazuya's youngest child with Jun who was taken from her mother's household and basically raised by Anna and Kazuya lol) and put it into the context of X-1999/CLAMP School Detective, all because I paired up her daughter Rei with Yuto (gods ok, just now I am realizing that I wrote dysfunctional relationship while I was a teen fml. Because the whole family is disfunctional, let me tell you, and this whole thing is DARK).

I think Mizuya and Rei were my most developed characters at the time, when I literally went so deep into details as to know even their daily routine.

But oh, i had fun.

[travelinghailes]

TOKYO

Brunch at PATH* (Okushibu) Coffee at Beasty Coffee (Okushibu), Bear Pond Espresso (Shimokitazawa) Sushi at Uogashi Nihon-Ichi Shibuya Dogenzaka, Sanaka (Shibuya) Dinner at Peter Luger Steak House Tokyo* (Ebisu) See Shinjuku Gyoen National Garden*, Godzilla Head (Shinjuku) Shopping at Shibuya Publishing & Booksellers, LOFT (Shinjuku) KYOTO | NARA | OSAKA

Brunch at Lorimer* (Kyoto) Cocktails at Bar Rocking chair* (Kyoto), jazz spot YAMATOYA* (Kyoto) Visit Fushimi Inari Shrine (Kyoto), Arashiyama Bamboo Forest (Kyoto), Nishiki Market (Kyoto) Visit Tōdai-ji temple* (Nara) Lunch at Mizuya Chaya (Nara Park) Coffee at LiLo Coffee Roasters (Osaka) Shopping in Shinsaibashi* (Osaka)

[pomegravearch]

"You can relax, my friend." / from mizuya!

" we're friends? " zakuro's brow furrows just a moment as though the idea simply had not dawned on them. they have for lack of a better term considered themself friendly. now that they are interacting with their peers they knows that they are plenty interesting to them. but simply it did not occur to them that other people beyond say nagi and their family friends might consider them to be friends.

perhaps they are simply autistic. the words that squeak out of them next they have absolutely no control over. " i'm glad you're my friend! "

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'24.6.29 水谷茶屋付近、春日大社、中の禰宜道にて

梅雨明けて、奈良市界隈は雨が降らずただひたすら暑い日が続いてます･･。

なのでシズル感ある写真など。

みなさま、熱中症には気を付けましょう。

[pumpkinmangaka]

Yuzubayama Suzu

In 25th of June, I'm planning on updating my OCs to get ready for Artfight 2024. Most of them aren't going to be updated, but the friend groups like Noguro, Mizuya, Xiaopeng and Yuzubayama himself any the other 8 will be. Be on a look out for more art.

[pingozillar]

Tsubokiri matcha (壺切抹茶), Matcha from Tsubokiri ceremony, tencha jar opening, harvested in spring

มัทฉะซุโบคิริเป็นมัทฉะที่บดจากใบชาเทนฉะที่ได้จากพิธีซุโบคิริพิธีเปิดไหชาที่ได้จากการเก็บเกี่ยวในฤดูใบไม้ผลิซึ่งจัดในช่วงต้นฤดูหนาว(ต้นเดือนพฤษจิกายน)นำมาบดเป็นมัทฉะเพื่อใช้ชงตลอดฤดูหนาว

Credit.

http://www.japantea.hu/tsubokiri,_kuchikiri,_robiraki

http://www.edosenke.jp/binran/mizuya/index02.html

[greedyapron]

3/8/2023 - Dinner

Tempura Udon by Mizuya

Prawn Tempura Udon ($15.90++)

Comes with 3 pcs of prawns and 4 pc of vegetables (eggplant, carrot, yam, mushroom). Definitely a lighter batter than suntec and the store in ion's basement. But the udon was somewhat meh?

Ume ($12++)

Rich sweet plummy taste