Beginner Series Handouts

• Course Outline, What to Bring to Class

• Description of Dogu (tea utensils and accessories)

• Rikyu’s Rules. “If you have one pot and can make your tea in it, that will do quite well”…

Urasenke Guidebooks (optional)

• Urasenke Tea Procedure, Sen, Soshitsu (2017). Tankosha Publishing, English translation ISBN978-4-473-04178-4, by Gretchen Mittwer and Michael Hardy. Includes step-by-step photos and descriptions of the basic procedures for host and guests. In three volumes:

  • Guidebook 1: Introductory Level: the fundamentals of host & guest roles; the two beginner level Bonryaku and Chitosebon procedures, step-by-step.

  • Guidebook 2: Usucha Tea Procedure. Includes both furo (brazier) and ro (sunken hearth) versions; more details of guest role.

  • Guidebook 3: Koicha Procedure. Includes both furo (brazier) and ro (sunken hearth) versions; more details of guest role.

• A Chanoyu Vocabulary, Practical Terms for the Way of Tea. Tankosha Editorial Dept. (2007). English translation ISBN078-4-473-03398-7. Japan: Tankosha Publishing Co., Ltd.

• A complete list of Urasenke Chado Study Resources in English, http://www.urasenke.or.jp/texte/index.html