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When you creep through the door into the tea room. you will kneel before the tokonoma to show respect.
A tokonoma is an alcove which is a form of shrine. It is a place of honor where a hanging scroll (kakemono and flowers are put so their aesthetic qualities might be appreciated. The scrolls might be of calligraphy, or inkpaintings of landscapes, figure subjects and other themes of Japanese life.
After you have finished admiring the tokonoma then admire the portable brazier or the sunken hearth with its kettle. then you take your place with the principal guest being seated before the tokonoma Leave a Comment
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stone path is the tsukubai or stone water basin.
A stone lantern will be near the basin. Another small roofed arbor with a bench will be near the teahouse itself, used for guests to rest between the first and second parts of the formal tea ceremony...that bench was just behind me.... Leave a Comment
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This is a great little tea house where you can enjoy gyokuro and powder tea with a good view of the garden and pond.
The best time is to come in the spring and enjoy the sakuras, like I did..or in the fall with the change of leaves...
Its not very far from yaizu, about 30 drive up the mountains...
visit my INUYAMA page where I have seen one of the 3 best tea houses the URAKU-EN which is consider a NATIONAL TREASURE.
There is a 500 yen fee with tea serving in the style of tea ceremony..
Open from 10am to 5pm
Its closed....Every 4th Monday of the month..and December 28 -January 2...
Leave a Comment Address: 1214-3 Nyufune,Okabe Town, shizuokaDirections: By bus from No.2 JR Yaizu station 40 minutes ?@ on the Asahina line , get off at Gyokuro no Sato ?@ bus stop.%c+
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Sumpu takumi shuku is a traditional hand craft center located in the little town of MARIKO....shizuoka prefecture..
Been living in yaizu for so long and never realized I was so close to such wonder craft center...
This facility introduces Shizuoka's history and culture and also many traditional arts and crafts that had been in the time of LORD IMAGAWA and the TOKUGAWA SHOGUN too...
Here you are able to make and see, lathe work, cabinetwork, lacquering, bambo lattice ware, pottery , makie, and traditonal hand dyeing....
There is no charge for looking around the facility...but if you wish to make something, then there is specific price for what you want to make...
There is a 400yen for parking
open from 9am to 5pm
closed wednesday and dec 30-jan 1 Leave a Comment Address: 3240-1 MARIKO shizuoka cityDirections: Tomei Exp..7km from shizuoka interchange...or from Yaizu IC...30 minutes.. or BUS....stop #6 for the chubu kokudo line at the north exit of JR shizuoka station...GET OFF at TOGEPPO IRIGUCHI...about 30 minutes ride, and 5 minutes walk from bus stop..
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CULTURAL ASSEST
The building is called O-hatago Kashibaya...
A hatago was a type of Japanese hotel from the EDO period....
O-hatago mean that it was a high-grade hotel...It was built almost 170 years ago in 1836..
Until 10 years ago, an old lady lived here alone...After her death, the okabe town bought this building...
The main building is a reconstruction of the old Japanese hotel at that time and also serves as a historical museum.
There are two storehouses in the Edo and Meiji eras, used as gallery and Japanese restaurant.
You can experience konnyaku and tofu making at the multi-purpose hall.
The ministry of culture has awarded this site as a CULTURAL ASSET it has also won and award by the city of shizuoka
The fee is over 15 years old 300 yen,
younger is 150 yen
Closing Days Monday in case of holidays, closed on the next day,
the year-end through New Year holidays
Opening Hours 9:00 - 17:00
There is a Guide who will take you around and explain all the details and things around the house, BUT ONLY IN JAPANESE... Leave a Comment Address: 817 Okabe,Okabe TownDirections: Take the JR Shizuoka station north exit; get on the bus for "Fujieda-eki" 40 min; get off at "Okabe Kitaguchi" bus stop; walk 1 min.
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After crossing the ABE river and entering a mountainous area, you reach to MARIKO post town, which is famous for TORORO-JIRU(jam broth poured on barley rice).....sorry but I dont really care for it..:)......
In HIROSHIGE picture he described....
".....It is a peaceful scene in early spring...the plum trees are budding, a bird is chirping on the thatched roof of the tororo jiru shop and old farmer heads for his fields where green young herbs are sprouting...."
This is landscape painting with a poetic touch of a haiku poem by the famous MATSUO BASHO....
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At the SUMPU TAKUMI SHUKU, you will be able to see and make , SURUGA bamboo lattice-ware......which is designated by the Minister of In ternational trade and Industry as a TRADITIONAL HANDICRAFT...
The bamboo is cut along its grain and slipt into many slats to weave into various shapes..
If you wish to make one of these, just look at the price tag, is not the price to buy it but to MAKE it...
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and everything connected with it operates by a very strict set of guidelines. Although the ceremony takes place in a tea house, even the area outside the tea house is important...:)
The garden (roji) is usually divided into parts by a low hedge. One part is the outer garden (soto roji) and the other part is the inner garden (uchi-roji).
Just past the gate to the garden is a short walkway paved with stones. Leave a Comment
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to the teahouse itself. The only entrance to the teahouse will be a small opening, usually about two feet by two and a half feet, requiring the guests to creep through.
The design of the teahouse should suggest wabi or the true spirit of the tea ceremony. Leave a Comment
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will be about four and a half tatami in size. In one corner will be a square hearth sunk into the floor with an iron kettle.
There will be slender pillars made from natural logs, small windows with grilles of bamboo and shoji or sliding doors covered with paper Leave a Comment
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on May 6, 2005
