ホモテナシ

• If you got a really special 水指, you can use a 長板 to really showcase it.
• Or just do 茶筅飾, and bring the 水指 for 拝見 on a white cloth.

All of the following are 名物, according to Burkus:

• 手桶（ておけ) also a bucket, but more elegant. Shuko used an unfinished one, as did 利休, and Soan used a lacquered one. Handle runs horizontally.
• There are different types of 鶴瓶: 利休's was unfinished cypress; there's another one made from pine wood and 淡々斎 liked one covered in bamboo. Handle runs vertically.
  • Burkus explains that the lid can warp and dust may enter, so 利休 liked to put something on it; a 香合 in the shape of a bird, for example. After 初炭, the host would come in with a 柄杓 to put a new weight on the 鶴瓶, and then take the 香合 with them. In this case, 香合 should be ceramic, as lacquer can not like the moisture. I certainly want to try this for a 茶事. Other things cannot be placed on it, though!
  • This is an 置水指, so it is theoretically put on the mat at dawn, and then left there until the end of the day.
  • Miya VII 23 said, you can refill it, just like you do for 割蓋; taking away 蓋置, putting 柄杓 in front horizontally, then filling it up
• 曲物, seam to the front.

• 大蓋: Take with both hands, and just put behind; or take with R, L on the side and R in the front, and put behind.
• 割蓋: R index tip on right side, lift op left half to 90°, then change fingers (without crossing hands). Sometimes, the lid can be quite wiggly, in this case, L holds in corner formed in the middle.