Before cleaning the chashaku after making tea, the person performs fukusa sabaki as he or she did in the first step, wipes off the tea powder on the upper part of the chashaku handle above the nakabushi (a node in the middle of the handle), brings the fukusa over the kensui (rinse-water receptacle) while holding the chashaku, and flicks away the powder on the fukusa with the right hand.
茶を点て終わったのち茶杓を袱紗で拭うときにははじめと同じように袱紗さばきをして茶杓の中節から先に茶が付着したのを拭い、茶杓を持ったまま茶の付いた袱紗を建水の上で右手ではたき落とす。