TeaChat

Filmed by my friend Bradford Keeney, this video shows Japanese National Living Treasure's Ikuko Osumi (master of an energy practice called Seiki Jutsu) hosting a tea ceremony conducted by National Living Treasure Professor Kato (scientist, university professor, and apparently tea and calligraphy master!).

Not sure when this video was originally shot (sometime in the mid-late 90's I believe), but both Osumi Sensei and Kato Sensei have since passed on.

I really appreciate the reverent, yet casual atmosphere going on. Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79lQrl3o6e8

Amazing.

That was great. The first half of the vid they are doing a koudou ceremony... japanese incense... I've actually never seen a video of it before

Yeah. I'd like to know what the incense was. Any practitioners here on the forum who can recognize it? Splinters of kyara perhaps?

I thought that might have been incense... but I wasn't very sure.

Also interesting that they had a samurai doll and empty vase in the tokonama. I am used to seeing a flower arrangement and scroll or painting.

Aged Aloeswood. Thanks for sharing T.

so many NY'ers in this thread... anyone know where to go in this city to participate in a koudou ceremony? (it's probably impossible...)

that is mon-koh, or "listening to incense", where a piece of fragrant wood is heated gently, in this case, it can be anything ranging from sandalwood, to agarwood.. or kyara..

Thanks for posting the video.

Don' try to put the Russian subtitles with an english automatic translation...

The man's kanji writing with a brush is spectacularly good, up there on the living national treasure level I imagine. Does anyone know what was on the pieces of paper the woman kept putting beside him as he was writing. Was he improvising a poem?

Edit - Doh, now I read the title of this thread and see he actually was a living national treasure.