





Musing in the pine
I have written many posts about the construction of the Tea-room. This saturday I held the very first chakai in my new room. In advance of that I had to make a new door, again! Still it is some way off perfect, but it works (somewhat).
“seki” orseatings.With four in the first and three in the second. I served thin Tea, using a Tabidansu. For expedience I had a extraTea-bowls hidden in the tabidansu. That way I could start preparing the Tea for the next guest as the first guest was drinking and looking at the bowl. It worked out nicely.
listening to the wind in the pines. I love this saying, as it so fully capture what Tea means for me.
All in all I feel it was a successful first chakai.
He build most of the hut himself. He learned how to do joinery, make shoji and such. The only part of the house he got professional help with was the roof. But even there he was working alongside the professional, and when the professional had to return to Denmark he finished the roof him self.
The hut was built in 1993. The Japanese ambassador to Norway, Nonoyama, gave the hut it’s name in 1994; Ungetsu-an. The meaning of the name is the hut of cloud and moon. When walking the roji the surrounding wall combined with a myriad of trees and bushes remove all traces of the surrounding city. From the roji, all you can see of the outside world is the clouds.
I have made a Facebook group for people in Norway doing Tea. Since we do not have a active association, I thought it might be a good idea to have a place to share events and thoughts about Tea in Norway, with out having all the overhead of reviving the association.