Hiroko’s Diary

I started to learn “Tea Ceremony” when I was 18 years old.   My mother told me to learn it.   I wasn’t willing to do it at first because I thought that learning “Tea Ceremony” was out of date.   But it didn’t take time for me to come to love the unique atmosphere.   While I was doing lessons, I felt as if time stopped.   My teacher would say to all students “When you come to my house to take lessons, you take off all the secular dirt and you can forget all of what you have to do or you have to play as an employee, a student, or a housewife.

Since then, I take lessons from time to time.   On Jan. 7th, I was able to participate “Hatsugama”, the first tea ceremony of the New Year, for the first time in 7 years.   I’ll write about what I did in the ceremony in the next blog.