Japanese tea ceremony

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[FastKart27]

Needs traditional Japanese music

[tamarexxe]

why this music?  it is veyr incongruous and detracts.

[setboy1]

@usaosakan So, I take it you are Japanese or have some background that would tell you such things?

[usaosakan]

I don't think this is done by Japanese. This is not a Japanese tea ceremony. It's very much japanese influenced though. the tatami mats are not traditional Japanese ones. This different one looks like ryukyu datami, by they way. Also, the outfit of the tea host looks different from japanese kimonos, especially obi. I can tell this is not in Japan. Also, the hishaku is way bigger than normal ones. Maybe they use one for outside. awful.

[TaciturnBadger2]

@lukkha1 Thanks for the explanation! It is greatly appreciated :-)

[lukkha1]

@taciturnbadger it is the inoue school . you are probably used to the urasenke or omotesenke schools. this one is a school which was popular among the aristocrats , differently to the other school which emphasis poverty and "cheap" looking ustensiles.

[shichan]

@taciturnbadger maybe it's because a man is doing it? perhaps there are certain techniques preferred between men and women when performing a tea ceremony? i dunno. i'm not expert on this stuff. it's just my blind guess in the dark.

[tsukimichan]

@1958boomergirl More than 500 years old.

[taciturnbadger]

I don't usually care for videos where the tea ceremony is set to music, but this was a rare gem. I noticed some differences in technique from the current norm, though. Is this a variant?

[1958boomergirl]

The tea ceremony looks like it might be a Shinto rite. Is this true?  How old is the tea ceremony?