Tea ceremony utensils

Japanese: 茶道具 - ちゃどうぐ

Tools necessary for the tea ceremony. They are broadly divided into six categories: decorative tools, tools for preparing tea, tools for banquets, tools for the water room, tools for waiting, and tools for the roji garden. (1) Decorative tools: Hanging scrolls for decorating the tea ceremony, flower vases, thin boards, incense burners, tables, tea leaf jars, daisu for the study, stationery, etc. (2) Tools for preparing tea: Incense containers for the charcoal preparation, charcoal bowls, feather brooms, rings, ash containers, fire tongs, ash spoons, kettle mats, etc., as well as tools directly necessary for preparing tea, such as tea kettles, braziers, robes, trivets, kusari (trivet-shaped folding screens), shibori (flooring), lid rests, tea boxes, water jars, tea containers, tea scoops, tea bowls, paper bags, trays, fukusa (cloths), tea kettle holders, shelves, etc. In addition, for thin tea, dried confectionery containers, tea tea caddies, and water-pouring kettles are also needed. (3) Kaiseki Utensils: Kaiseki furniture (rice trays, rice bowls, soup bowls, soup bowls, simmered food bowls, rice bowls, rice spoons, yuba buckets, yuba scoops, trays, long trays, hassun (8-inch) trays, tsubaki (12-inch) trays, flat trays, jars, etc.), Kaiseki utensils (mukae (present-style dinnerware), yakimono bowls, tsukebachi (a bowl for serving dishes), tsukumono bowls, tsukemono bowls, tsukemono bowls, tsukemono bowls, etc.), sake utensils (kannabe (pot for serving sake), choshi (a sake cup), hikibai (a sake cup used to hold sake), sakadai (a sake cup stand), tokkuri (a sake bottle), ishibai (a sake cup used to hold sake), etc.) (4) Mizuya Utensils: Chasen (a tea whisk), tea towels, and a ladle as auxiliary items for preparing tea, as well as tea sweeping boxes, tea towel basins, cleaning cloths, tea towels, tea sieves, mizuya charcoal bowls, seat sweeping cups, etc. (5) Waiting equipment: hangings, bottle holders, teacups, tobacco trays, tobacco cases, tobacco pipes, mats or cushions, etc. (6) Garden equipment: sandals, garden hats, buckets, candles, etc. Although tea utensils are sometimes called tea utensils, tea utensils in the narrow sense refer to tea containers.

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Japanese:

茶事を行ううえに必要な道具。装飾用具，点茶用具，会席用具，水屋用具，待合用具，露地用具の6種類に大別される。 (1) 装飾用具　茶席を飾る掛け物，花入れ，薄板，香炉，卓，葉茶壺，書院用の台子，文房具など。 (2) 点茶用具　炭点前のための香合，炭斗 (とり) ，羽箒，鐶，灰器，火箸，灰匙，釜敷などと，点茶に直接必要な茶釜，風炉，炉縁，五徳，鎖，風炉先屏風，敷板，蓋置き，茶箱，水指，茶入れ，茶杓，茶碗，紙袋，盆，袱紗，建水，棚物など。さらに薄茶の場合には，干菓子器，棗 (なつめ) ，水つぎやかんなどが必要。 (3) 会席用具　懐石家具 (折敷，飯椀，汁椀，吸物椀，煮物椀，飯器，飯杓子，湯桶，湯子掬，通盆，長盆，八寸，楪子，平，壺など) ，懐石器物 (向付，焼物鉢，預け鉢，強肴鉢，漬物鉢など) ，酒器 (燗鍋，銚子，引盃，盃台，徳利，石盃など) の3種。 (4) 水屋用具　点茶用の補助品としての茶筅，茶巾，柄杓と，備品の茶掃箱，茶巾盥，拭巾，茶篩 (ふるい) ，水屋炭斗，座掃など。 (5) 待合用具　掛け物，瓶懸，吸出し茶碗，煙草盆，煙草入れ，煙管 (きせる) ，敷物または座布団など。 (6) 露地用具　草履，露地笠，手桶，手燭など。なお，茶道具を茶器と称することもあるが，茶器は狭義には茶入れのことである。

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