After all, the ultimate goal of tea ceremony is to simply serve delicious tea. The quality of tea power is, needless to say, the most important. A utensil that contains the tea power is just as important. I was fortunate that a friend of mine gave me this beautiful handmade tea container (Natsume) as a …
With Senses from Japan 2017 is coming up, I’ve been spending some time for the preparation, which in itself is exciting and a lot of fun. One of the fun part of hosting a tea ceremony event is the process of choosing all the tea utensils. Although my tea utensil collection is minimal and nothing …
In this website I describe Japanese tea ceremony as a concept of philosophy, a form of meditation, and an integral art form. Tea ceremony, however, teaches us more than that. I will keep on introducing tea ceremony’s various aspects on my blog. This article on CIO.COM tells you how tea ceremony is relevant to the …
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Frosaki Byobu is used in tea ceremony to create intimate space for the gathering. What if it gives you healing illumination… That’s what SKYBLUE Furniture for Healing does with the latest electro-magnetic technology! An engineering team “Permeance” of a Tokyo-based company To-wa Co., Ltd. is now having a crowd funding campaign for this SKYBLUE project. …
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As soon as I finished reading Konmari’s book The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, I opened up my drawers and pulled out all my clothes. Thanks to her, I got rid of almost half of my old clothing and now I arrange them by color. The huge success of Konmari’s book and the worldwide popularity …
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Wagashi (和菓子）literally means “Japanese sweets.” In tea ceremony, it plays a vital role as an appetizer for the main course; matcha green tea. Having wagashi first mitigates the bitterness of matcha, creating perfect harmony in your palate. The visual presentation is just as important as the taste. For generations, wagashi craftsmen have been trying to …
March 11… It has become the day no Japanese can forget. But the nature didn’t have any discrimination by nationality. Some foreigners living in that region then lost their lives. Young Montgomery “Monty” Dickson from Alaska was one of them. After graduating from University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), Monty worked as an English language teacher …
Obtaining interesting images for the update articles is a hassle, I admit. The press announce from the Metropolitan Museum of Art last month, therefore, is a great news for me! Especially they have over 300,000 digital images of Japanese items. On February 7, 2017, The Metropolitan Museum of Art implemented a new policy known as …