ホモテナシ

• CNY is expensive enough already, so no need to buy things only to discover later you didn't need them. This I think is the minimal set that allows you to perform all the 点前 up to 四ヵ伝.
• Until the student acquires a quality piece, the teacher should lend a quality-piece to the students. There is really no space in the world for plastic-made 棗 for practise. That means the 道具 has a box, a 仕服（しふく） and, ideally, a name.
• My dream is that I end up with a version of all these tools that are Swiss-made

• 水屋
  • Sieve for tea
  • 茶壷 filled with tea in Japan
• Textiles
  • 着物
  • 帛紗
  • 古帛紗 (you need four for 色紙建)
  • 茶巾
  • 大津袋 (even though you can even do 茶通箱 with just your 帛紗 and its a stupid thing to 拝見)
• Wooden things
  • generally be able to make 桐箱
  • 茶通箱
  • 中付き
  • 曲物水差
  • 曲物建水
  • 曲物水次
  • 花盆
  • 貴人台
  • 茶杓 (with 仕服, so it can be used in 茶箱 and with 筒)
  • 蓋置
  • 茶筅 (in dark and light, with a 筒 for 茶箱)
  • 短冊
  • 水差 for 名水
  • 柄杓 (that you can use on 台子)
• Lacquered things
  • 茶箱
  • 棗 (including 仕服, so it can be used in 茶箱)
  • 平棗
  • 千年盆
  • 四方盆
  • ふちだか
  • 台子 (where you can use the top part as a 長板)

• Ceramics
  • 天目 (with 仕服 and 台)
  • 貴人茶碗 (which fits into or around 天目, then they can be used for 重ね茶碗 or 茶箱
  • 茶入 (with its 盆): ぼんりん, かたつぎ, だいかい
  • 茶箱-set (with cords to go around the sweets container)
  • おうひ茶碗 (maybe 半筒)
  • 織部茶碗
  • 皆具 (especially for 蓋置)
  • せと水差
• Metal
  • 鉄瓶 made from silver
  • 飾り火箸
  • 花入
  • 建水
  • 釜 (雲龍)
  • かん
  • chains
  • 風呂 (I like the ちょうせん one, but it's not very flexible; same for the やすれ)
• Others
  • 香合 (some sound related shape; akin to 利休's 瑠璃雀香合（るり　すずめ))
  • 干菓子盆
  • elevated 盆 for 貴人
  • タバコ盆
  • 掛け軸 (probably 無感情)
  • 象牙茶杓
  • 香 itself, wood for summer and 練香 for winter
  • 炭斗, I like the gourd one
  • ash spoons
  • ash
  • feather

• This is just a fun exercise for me to search for canonical 道具
• Ideally, you'd start with one proper item for each slot; for 炉 and 風炉.
• Then you expand into 真, 行, 草
• Then you expand into the four seasons
• Then you find one for each of the 12 months
• Such 道具 would be 釜, 棚, 棗, maybe 茶入; 軸, 蓋置.

• They are not so seasonal by their shape, but with their fixed 御名. However, certain woods could be more seasonal, like 梅 for February and 桜 for March
• I guess also a sooty bamboo one might be quite suitable for October.
• You need to have one 真, so either a bamboo one 節無 or an ivory (which, today, means horn)
• Theoretically, you also need a 元節; but you can use it officially for one 点前 only.
• You could add one with several nodes for particularly auspicious moments.
• I like the idea of having a set of 梅, 桜 and 松 wood; which, especially here in Switzerland, should be easier to make.

• 射座喫茶
• 常楽我浄 (Eternal, joyous, selfless, pure)

1. Riyku black (shin, works always)
2. Gengensais hira natsume (for autumn)
3. A high natsume, I like the one with the kawasemi that I have (summer)
4. Hinomaru (for NY, for doll's festival?)
5. fubuki (for winter, for sakura season)
6. nakatsugi in wood
7. zencha
8. kinrinji (I have one with chestnuts, also for autumn)
9. shiteki (I got the well one)
10. oimatsu (also for autumn)

When the season changes, replace:

• Kaishi
• Fukusa
• Hishaku
• Futaoki (cut new one)

For a new 茶事:

• Tabi
• Chasen
• Chakin
• Chopsticks