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TeaLife Audio – Ep 159 – Spooky Tea

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Hosts

  • Anthony
  • TJ

Guest

  • Lindsey

A conversation about how preparing and hosting Tea based on local culture can lead to the discovery of the bounds appropriate for your Tea, and lead to inspiration to explore other elements of the seasonality of Tea.

Poem:
開門多落葉
kai mon raku yō o-oshi
-or-
mon wo hirakeba, raku yō o-oshi

Opening my door, leaves piled up
-or-
Opening my door, only leaves

TeaLife Audio – Ep 159 – Spooky Tea

Hosts – Anthony – TJ Guest – Lindsey Poem 開門多落葉 kai mon raku yō o-oshi or mon wo hirakeba, raku yō o-oshi Opening my door, leaves piled up or Opening my door, only leaves


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TeaLife Audio – Ep158 – Women and Tea

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Host

  • Marius

Guests

  • Rebeca
  • Michelle
  • Helena
  • Diana

Information referenced:

– Mizusashi pirouette: https://youtube.com/shorts/Vhs2qtVsEuA

TeaLife Audio – Episode 158 – Women and Tea

Host – Marius Guests – Rebeca – Michelle – Helena – Diana Information referenced: – Mizusashi pirouette: https://youtube.com/shorts/Vhs2qtVsEuA


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TeaLife Audio – Ep 156 – Tsukimi

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Hosts

  • Anthony
  • TJ
  • Tanya
  • Adam

Tsukimi – Moon Viewing

Poem

Jiku – Master Kidō

掬水月在手　

Mizu o kiku sureba/ tsuki te ni ari

I scoop up water and the moon is in my hands

 

Enlightenment Poem  – Chiyono: also known as Mugai Nyodai (1223-1298)

 

tonikaku ni/ takumishi oke no/ soko nukete/ mizu tamaraneba/ tsuki mo yadorazu

 

With this and that I tried to keep the bucket together, and then the bottom fell out. Where water does not collect, the moon does not dwell

– Translation, Merle Kodo Boyd, 2013.

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TeaLife Audio – Ep 155 – Chrysanthemum Festival – KikuNoSekku

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Hosts:

  • Tanya
  • Anthony
  • TJ

 

 

Poem

菊の露 若ゆばかりに 袖触れて

花のあるじに 千代は譲らむ

 

Kikunotsuyu waka yu bakari ni sode furete/ hana no aruji ni chiyo wa yuzura/ mu

Murasaki Shikibu Diary poem, Modern translation:

Chrysanthemum dew

I brush my sleeve to gain a little youth

But let she who owns the flowers have the thousand years they bring

Link to Makura Jido: Noh Performance held at Horinji, Arashiyama, on 9/9:

Japanese No Theatre during the chrysanthemum festival at temple Hôrinji, Arashiyama

www.satori-nihon.de www.Japan-Kyoto.de Facebook: fb.me/Japan.Kyoto.de


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TeaLife Audio – Ep 153 – Obon

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Hosts

  • Anthony
  • TJ

Guest

  • Tanya

Obon

Poem

by Saigyõ

sute-gataki
omoi naredomo
sutete idemu
makoto no michi zo
makoto naru beki
Hard it is 
to leave the world
yet leave I will
for the true path
is the truth

Information referenced

Books Mentioned :

  • Hungry Ghosts – Andy Rotman
  • Gazing at the Moon: Buddhist Poems of Solitude – Saigyõ 

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TeaLife Audio – Ep 151 – Tanabata with Palmer-sensei

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Hosts

  • Tj
  • Anthony

Guest

  • Palmer-senei

Tanabata

 

鳴な虫別るる恋はほしにさへ。 小林一茶 

Nakuna mushi wakaruru koi wa hoshi ni sae. Ko-bayashi I-ssa.

(After the death of his wife.)

 

Cry not insects divided love even stars among.  Little-grove One-tea.

(literal translation)

 

Oh, insects, cease your cries that pierce the heart. 

Lovers, even among the stars, must part.

(Translated by Harold Stewart.)

(Harold chose the form of the Heroic couplet when translating Haiku.) 

From his, ‘A Chime of Windbells‘.

(Courtesy of Allan Sōsei Palmer Sensei)

 


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