The other day, I went to the citizens’ tea ceremony held at the cultural center in my town, Seto. It is casual and pretty much reasonable so anybody can attend. What interesting about the cultural center is that there is a nice classic tea room inside a concrete building. While inside the traditional tea room, you will forget that you are in the modern building. When I attended the ceremony last year, I was disappointed that the heath used was not real charcoal. A charcoal-imitation electric stove was used. This year again, it was not real charcoal in the heath. But this time, I found out the reason behind it. The host told me that there is a regulation for using fire inside the building. I don’t know if it is for public building or concrete architecture, anyhow they had to use electric stove. Nevertheless, I still appreciate the nice tea room and the opportunity for casual tea ceremony.
Can you see the heath underneath? It has some false charcoal figure with red hot wire. This is not exactly the one used in the ceremony, but something like this.
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