How to Examine Tea Whisk【Urasenke Tea Ceremony】英語で茶道【裏千家】

Pour some hot water into the tea bowl. Take the tea whisk with your right hand, mainly using your thumb and pointing finger. Place the whisk inside the tea bowl at the 3 o'clock position. Your middle finger touches the rim of the tea bowl. Release the tea whisk handle gently. Adjust your grip by rotating your right hand. Hold the whisk handle with your right thumb on top of it. Bring the tea whisk up until approximately 12 inches above the floor. Then rotate your wrist as you lower the tea whisk back to the 3 o'clock position inside the tea bowl. Remember to extend your middle finger to your pinky finger. Let go of the whisk. Adjust the grip again and place your right thumb on top of the tea whisk. Repeat this motion of raising the tea whisk in the air once more time. While doing so, check the bristles of the tea whisk to make sure they are not broken. Regrasp the tea whisk with your right thumb on top. Rinse the whisk inside the tea bowl with back and forth motion 5 or 6 times. Draw a hiragana no shape inside the tea bowl. When the no shape is drawn, bring your left hand to touch the side of the tea bowl to form Japanese katakana character ha with both wrists. Take the tea whisk from the center of the bowl.