“shoza” (initial seating) “goza” (latter seating) May is the season when the “furo” is used for the first time of the year. Last autumn, two students in their twenties from my class received their tea names. To commemorate the occasion, we held a “chaji” (formal tea gathering) at Meisho-an in Saginuma. Both have studied tea for eight to ten years and have made wonderful progress. A chaji is a formal tea gathering that includes the charcoal-laying procedure (sumi-temae), a “k