This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...in the various utensils, one after the other, she pushed aside the screen, being on her knees. She then rose formally and walked straight through the opening, turned squarely round, facing the fireplace, walked a step toward it, paused and looked ahead in an absentFig. 655 minded way, then knelt and reverently ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1917 Excerpt: ...in the various utensils, one after the other, she pushed aside the screen, being on her knees. She then rose formally and walked straight through the opening, turned squarely round, facing the fireplace, walked a step toward it, paused and looked ahead in an absentFig. 655 minded way, then knelt and reverently deposited the objects on the mat. She rose without touching her hands to the floor and retired in the same moderate manner. After the bowl had been brought in, she brought in a delicate bamboo dipper. I should have mentioned that when we entered the room the water-vessel and the jar had already been placed in their proper positions. At this stage the objects appeared as in figure 655. The tea-jar was untied and the bag pushed down on each side by the edge of the hand; the bag was then hung on the peg from which hung the feather duster. Water was dipped out of the kettle, poured into the tea-bowl, and by a rotary movement of the tea-stirrer (fig. 656) and a circular movement round the bowl at the same time, the bowl and the stirrer were both washed; the bowl was then wiped with a piece of white cotton cloth and this act was performed A TEA CEREMONY 253 in a certain way. Not a word was spoken during all this performance. A slender bamboo spoon was then used in scooping out the powdered tea from the tea-jar. Miki, having taken out the customary three teaspoonfuls, was about to stop when her father said in an undertone "More," and "Still more," and several times till she had put a lot of the tea in the bowl. We sat facing her in a semi-circle, I on the extreme left, then Gonza, next Kimura, and then our host. The water was then added and stirred briskly, though every movement was made with extreme formality. The host then approached th...
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