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• CQ82 argues that 灰型 is one of the few areas in 茶の湯 where the host can express his creativity, when the rest of movements is fixed and 道具 made by someone else.
• Larry explained in 22 that even though in Japan you can pay people to do it for you; the 灰型 (and cleaning of the toilet) are the minimum things that the host should do himself during a 茶事.
• Also, it gives away easily the degree of his accomplishment.
• 利休 came up with this idea when he was riding on the beach with 織部
• There are no rules which to use for which situation; so it's up to your aesthetic considerations.

There are 9 ash forms in 裏千家 today:

1. 二文字　押し切り（おしきり）
2. 二文字　書き上げ（かきあげ）
3. 丸灰　押し切り
4. 丸灰　書き上げ
5. 向　一文字　前谷　（むこ　まえたに）
6. 遠山（とおやま）一山（ひとつ）(generally useful for larger 風炉)
7. 遠山　二山
8. 向山（むこう）
9. 鱗灰（うろこ）(only for highest 点前)

• Start by setting the height: 五徳 should be high enough to give room to the charcoal.
• Continue by brushing the surface into the right shape. Doing it with a brush makes sure it is already even, making it easier to flatten.
• You may form the ash the night before the 茶事, but writing the trigram and adding the フジ灰 should wait until the last minute

• In ほんがって, the mountain is on the right side (closer to the guest). The bent front line is created by starting with the straight ridge, and then chopping with the rounded spoon rather than with the straight one.
• 向山（むく）in 中置

• For 鱗灰（うろこ）, which you use for 真の行, you make a 二文字　押し切り, then take some more ash into a mortar and pestle with some water, spread it out and lay each 'scale' individually.

• Flat one is ひらば or こばん
• Pointy one is ささば (like bamboo)
• Round one is まるば. This you can bend more to your liking with a towel, if it's made from copper. If it's lacquered, the lacquer would crack.

☝️ Copper is the best

• To make a complete set, you should also add a brush, some フジ灰 and a chopstick for writing the trigram. Thierry also has a board and a water scale, which is quite 🥹.

shin: mayu earthernware, takeno joo mayu buro or ooburo ( too large for the daisu) gyo: everything bronze and other shapes so: cast iron

ita shin: arame ita : black lacquer, horizontal rays, wider to front than far side ; use for black clay or bronze plain shin nuri

generally: grain should show towards the guest (on bottom shelf, middle

iron furo you use ceramic tile (usually oribe)

HAI finely sifted (fukusa bai) (and the japanese got specialised sieves for it, looking like a mehlsieb

80 holes to 1 cm^2

ro > 40 holes to 1 cm^2

ask at barbequee restaurants

haisaji hiraba (flat) (or koban) sasaba (like bamboo) maruba (round) (bend a lot)

copper is best
can be bend carefully in a towel (if it’s not lacquered)

very light brush to straighten the surface

this should suffice, but there are larger sets ogawadori konnichi sell helpers,

add a brush or feather and a bag of fujibai (when not using a iron one; adding more during high summer than at the beginning and end) a chopstick for writing the trigram

TOKIMURABURA (designed by Gengensai and smaller by Tantansai Tokiwa _> set, iron; green lacquer with red rim → all purpose practise buro seishikisumagora

furotobai to shin no gyo make nimonji oshikiri, grind ash with a little water, and put every fish scale down each one by one

warabai in october, also standard nimonji oshikiri; put them down one by one with tweezers and cut with very fine scissors

hosho paper, folded like for a kaishi for sweets

or just use newspaper like fabio

for non-iron furo you use a white mae gawara, for tetsu / iron use red

getting a new urushi furo, start with smaller fires to break it in otherwise it will crack

(today there are “clay furo” made of metal and lacquered, so that they are lighter)

toyama useful for larger furo

chose according to aesthetic considerations$

height for kirikake → its the gitcho

even though you can get people in japan to do haigta for you, at a chaji it is essential you do the haigata (and clean the toilet) yourself

do haigata the day before, but fujibai just before

toyama right in hongatte make one side of front line round (use the bent spoon) then form the mountain top then brush the rest (making sure there’s enough room for charcoal)

mukoyama in nakaoki

• video!

Palmer explains that the trigram ☵ is written because it not only represents water, but also north, thus establishing the host facing north.

🔥 Add this just before you add the started coal; to give more air.

• Set the trivet so that it is equidistant from all walls.
• Then, according to some old text described in CQ82, the trivet is pulled forward half a centimetre. This is because the 釜 should be tilted forward slightly, and like this it is still equidistant from all the 風炉 walls.
• Then, move the trivet a bit to the left, and the brazier a bit to the right.
• Other texts go even further in arguing for seven flexions (風炉の七歪, ひずみ) — the one in CQ82 is a bit confused, so I jumbled this list together with what I could find on the internets. However, this is not a topic that many people write about; so maybe it was just some 先生 who wanted to correct something, at all; or, something for the different schools to differentiate themselves.

1. Trivet half a centimetre to the front
2. Kettle a bit tilted to the front (so far, so good)
3. Kettle twisted towards the host
4. Brazier twisted towards the guest
5. Fireguard twisted a bit towards the guest (at least one person does that the opposite way)
6. Ashes go slightly down from left to right, and front to back
7. 柄杓 slightly towards the host