「The order of precedence having been mutually agreed upon while resting in the machiai, the guests one by one wil enter noiselesly and take their seats, first making obeisance to the picture or flower arrangement on the tokonoma.
The host will not enter the room until all the guests have reated themselves and quiet reigns with nothing to break the silence save the note of the boiling water in the iron kettle.
The kettle sings well, for pieces of iron are so arranged in the bottom as to produce a peculiar melody in which one may hear the echoes of a cataract muffled by clouds, of a distant sea breaking among the rocks, a rainstorm sweeping through a bamboo forest, or of the soughing of pines on some fareway hill.」(From the Book of Tea-The Tea-Room, pp.62-63, Charles E. Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vermont, Tokyo, Japan)
I hope you are able to imagine the silence in theTea-Room, in which you hear and/or listen to the singing songs of boiling water in the iron kettle.
I am sure you will understand various kinds of the singings of the kettles.
It is the supreme spritual and natural songs.
You will realize and accept the world of quiet and relaxes in the midst of a city by the singing song of the kettle.
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