Fukusa (袱紗, also written as 帛紗 and 服紗) are a type of Japanese textile used for gift-wrapping or for purifying equipment during a Japanese tea ceremony...

gathering wear the fukusa tucked into the obi. By tradition, the host of a formal tea ceremony uses a new, previously unused fukusa. Fukusa are most often...

and hand-painted designs; however, furoshiki are much less formal than fukusa, and are not generally used to present formal gifts. While they come in...

region. Regional variations include pouches made of a thin omelette (帛紗寿司, fukusa-zushi, or 茶巾寿司, chakin-zushi) instead of tofu. It should not be confused...

kanpyō strips are frequently used as an edible twist tie in dishes such as fukusa-zushi and chakin-zushi. Typically the dried strips are boiled to soften...

and the hakama. Some aspects of tea ceremony – such as the use of silk fukusa cloths – cannot be performed without wearing a kimono and obi, or a belt...

to bow; basic guest behaviour including use of fans Fukusa folding, opening and handling the fukusa Natsume the natsume is the first type of tea container...

finding the last man he holds responsible for his father's death. That man, Fukusa, leads a peaceful life as a mirror maker under the name of Uncle Fu. He...

Hisayuki Toriumi Executive producers Kazuo Nakano Haruo Sai Producer Reiko Fukusa Screenplay Keiji Terada Character design/ Animation direction Michi Sanaba...

Tanimura Gorōsaku (谷村五郎作) and Sanzō (三蔵); and that on an embroidered silk fukusa enclosing a box of tea, from Koshoro (コショロ), now at the Hirado Dutch Trading...