Sunday, I was dressed in Kimono and assisted a tea ceremony. I work for a master of tea ceremony. Yukiko Murano, our host and master of tea ceremony. She put together a great crew of international peoples that assist her and she invites the most interesting guests. She is a wonderful host, she introduces her guests to each other and to the people working her party.She had a guest journalist who had been to Iraq. She shows her guests some interesting artifacts, they pass them to the person beside them after inspection.
Ceramic ware and Japanese calligraphy . . . She had a special tea bowl that had camels on it. Among us, the servers, we had an American, a Phillipino, Sri Lankan, Saudi Arabian. Other helpers included young Japanese children, 8-12 years old. A young girl, 12 years of age, one of our AOBA students, performed (goes through all the rituals of preparing the tea), she actually only makes the first two bowls. We serve the rest from a kitchen which is set up in a back room.
We went to a dress shop early in the morning to get professionally dressed. Done so tightly, my back was aching from being forced to be stand so straight and tall. I had to lie down on my stomach during my lunch break !!!
We did a number of parties throughout the day. These awesome old Japanese ladies all in kimonos are treat ME like I'm the celebrity !!! I think they are thrilled to see foreigners appreciating/enjoying their culture.
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