ホモテナシ

• 茶花 very different from the artistic 生け花.
• しゅこ: No conscious effort when arranging flowers
• 利休: 花は　の　に　ある　よ　に「The flower should be as it is in the field」
• 利休: Cut fresh green bamboo for a vase, pour clear water into it and, with pure heart, put in a fresh flower.
• 利休: First contemplate the flower, then pick the vase.
• 利休: Pick one or two cuttings of the same flower, maybe add some 'soft fullness'
• 利休: In 1567 did a 茶事 where he had the guests return after 中立 to find an empty flower vase with some water in it. 利休 explained to his guests to imagine the flower; and CQ41 describes this as the ultimate 茶花.
• Naosuke: Don't use rare and unusual flowers. Go outside, look for a flower, cut it.
• Naosuke: Flowers capture 一期一会: A flower only lasts for a brief moment.

• 利休 chose short-lived flowers, and forbade the use of long-lived and garish flowers such as sweet daphne (Seidelblast), mountain anise (Anis-Duftnessel or Riesenysop), cockscomb; patrinia, pomegranate, candock and marigold (CQ41)

• Buddhism started practise of offering flowers, initially (600 AD) two flowers to the left of the altar and two candles to the right; then in 室町（むろまち）just one each (like during 利休き).
• Rokkaku-do sect used flower offerings to teach Buddhism, then in 室町 one of its priests made them just for fun (in the large あしかが-room, obviously, so the arrangements themselves were quite large and the 花入 used obviously all Chinese).
• In XVI then rooms and thus flower containers became smaller, with one or two blossoms being used (according to the 南方録 one for the small, two for the big room).

haru no no ni sumire tsumi ni to koshi ware zo
no o natsukashimi hito-yo ne ni keru

I came to the filed to pick violets / but I loved the field so much I've slept there all night; from Yamabe-no-Akihito, ~700 AD

• 花入
• Mittwer's book