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Updated: May 4, 2025
"My teacher says and my teacher was educated at the court of the Tokugawa Shogun that no woman can have really good manners, if she has not studied the chanoyu." Of course, there was nothing which Asako would like more than to sit in this fascinating arbour in the warm days of the coming summer, and play at tea-parties with her new-found Japanese cousin.
"It is the room for the chanoyu, the tea-ceremony," said her cousin. Inside, the walls were daubed with earth; and a round window barred with bamboo sticks gave a view into what was apparently forest depths. "Why, it is just like a doll's house," cried Asako, delighted. "Can we go in?" "Oh, yes," said the Japanese.
Men and women ought not to sit and move like animals; but the shape of their bodies, and their way of action ought to express a poetry. That is the art of the chanoyu." "I should like to see it," said Asako, excited by her cousin's enthusiasm, though she hardly understood a word of what she had been saying. "You ought to learn some of it," said Sadako, with the zeal of a propagandist.
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