Welcome to the highs and lows of living in Asahi, Nyu-gun, a small and strange town nestled in the mountains of western Japan. Dare you read what thrilling adventures will befall....AN ENGLISHMAN IN NYU-GUN!!!
13 January 2005
This is me with my tea ceremony teacher. By this point I had been kneeling down for about 2 hours and my knees were killing me! In the background there's a hagoita - a sort of racket used to play an ancient Japanese ball game.
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Back in the days when me and Rich studied Iaido there was a lot of kneeling on wooden floors, sliding around while drawing and cutting with swords (incase you get attack whilst looking for a contact lens). Anyway, i feel your knee knackering pain and found that cussioned knee pads from a sports shop were the way forward. Worn under the hakama nobody could tell, you may have to invest in a pair of MC Hammer suit trousers to hide them under if you insist on wearing a 3 piece. Keep up the good work. Richie. p.s What is the record for most amount of tea consumed in one ceremony?
Personally I've only ever drunk a maximum of three cups of tea in one ceremony, but I'm willing to try for four. Thanks for the tips about knee pads - not a bad idea... however, I find the bigger problem is that my feet go to sleep after a while, leading to chronic pins and needles.
Well, I've been reliably informed that it's not a bunch of flowers by one of my teachers. "Hanetsuki" is the game which you play using the hagoita - it's a sort of ancient type of Japanese badminton.
3 comments:
Back in the days when me and Rich studied Iaido there was a lot of kneeling on wooden floors, sliding around while drawing and cutting with swords (incase you get attack whilst looking for a contact lens). Anyway, i feel your knee knackering pain and found that cussioned knee pads from a sports shop were the way forward. Worn under the hakama nobody could tell, you may have to invest in a pair of MC Hammer suit trousers to hide them under if you insist on wearing a 3 piece.
Keep up the good work.
Richie.
p.s What is the record for most amount of tea consumed in one ceremony?
Personally I've only ever drunk a maximum of three cups of tea in one ceremony, but I'm willing to try for four. Thanks for the tips about knee pads - not a bad idea... however, I find the bigger problem is that my feet go to sleep after a while, leading to chronic pins and needles.
Well, I've been reliably informed that it's not a bunch of flowers by one of my teachers. "Hanetsuki" is the game which you play using the hagoita - it's a sort of ancient type of Japanese badminton.
So there you go.
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