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Updated: May 13, 2025
Asako jumped in at once and squatted down on the clean matting; but her more cautious cousin dusted the place with her handkerchief before risking a stain. "Do you often have tea-ceremonies?" asked Asako. The Muratas had explained to her long ago something about the mysterious rites. "Two or three times in the Spring, and then two or three times in the Autumn. But my teacher comes every week."
She was according to the Japanese ideal of beauty; and that standard is not reached by one woman in a hundred thousand. Also she was more than clever: she was accomplished. She composed very dainty poems, could arrange flowers exquisitely, perform tea-ceremonies faultlessly, embroider, make silk mosaic: in short, she was genteel.
It was shared, as I also discovered, by the tea-ceremonies, in which he was a proficient; such a mixture is man. But I believe the view to have been the deeper affection. While I was admiring it, he fetched from a cupboard a very suspicious-looking bottle of what turned out to be honey, and pressed a glass of it upon me.
Therefore a training in the tea-ceremonies is still held to be a training in politeness, in self-control, in delicacy, a discipline in deportment.... Quite as elaborate is the art of arranging flowers.
Three of these were of a sort indicating a high degree of refinement: poetical contests, tea-ceremonies, and the complex art of flower-arrangement. All were introduced into Japanese society long before the Tokugawa regime; the fashion of poetical competitions must be as old as Japanese authentic history.
But it was under the Tokugawa Shogunate that such amusements and accomplishments became national. Then the tea-ceremonies were made a feature of female education throughout the country. Their elaborate character could be explained only by the help of many pictures; and it requires years of training and practice to graduate in the art of them.
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