Tea Life Audio
Tea Life Audio is a podcast about Japanese Tea Ceremony and related arts. This is a round table show, with an open discussion about Tea. The show has three hosts who have several decades of combined experience with Tea ceremony.
Each episode follows a similar structure of: Announcements, Banter, Anecdote, and Main Tea topic.
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Lates blog posts
TeaLife Audio – Episode 103 – Roji
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Host
- Aaron
- Adam
- Marius
- Ula
Topic – Roji
Poem 71.
Place the alcove hook to suspend a flower vase at a height around:
3 shaku 3 sun 5 bu – let this precedent guide you
花入の折釘うつは地敷居より
三尺三寸五分餘もあり
hanaire no orikugi utsu wa jishikii yori san shaku san sun go bu amari mo ari
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TeaLife Audio – Episode 102 – Shin Gyou Sou
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Host
– Ula
– Aaron
– Marius
Main Topic
Shin Gyou Sou
Poem
#70 うす板とこの大小また花や花生によりかはるしなしな
The thin board for the flower container changes in relation to the size of alcove, flowers and flower container
TeaLife Audio – Episode 101 – Gyakugatte
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Host
- Adam
- Marius
Main Topic – Gyakugatte
Poem
69. うす板は床かまちより十七目、または十八十九目におけ
The thin board is placed seventeen weaves from the edge of the alcove’s step
But this is not absolute; 18 or 19 may suit