Topic
kakemono
3 pieces.
01
Chabana & Kakemono: Flowers and Scrolls in the Tea Room The hanging scroll is the tea room's most important object, chosen and read first. A single seasonal flower answers it. Why chabana is not ikebana. 02
Ichigyō-mono: The One-Line Zen Phrases of the Tea Room The tea-room scroll usually carries one line of Zen. What kissako, nichi nichi kore kōjitsu, mu and the other zengo mean, and where each began. 03
How to Read the Tea Room Scroll The kakemono in the tokonoma is the first thing a guest reads at a tea gathering. What the hanging scroll is, why it ranks first, and how to read a bokuseki.