Valentine’s Tea Ceremony
Artistic Valentine’s Tea Ceremony It’s Valentine’s day in February 14th. It’s popular to give chocolates from girls to her boy friends in Japan. But how a...
Tea Ceremony for table and chair style “Chitose-bon”
Chitose-bon way of tea, we can perform on the table as well! “Chitose-bon” plate is the way of tea created by a wife of 14th grand master of Urasenke tea school...
Travel Japan in a tea room
Travel in the small Japanese tea room?! The basic size of the tea room is just 4 and half tatami mats（≒8.208㎡). Even in the small room, we can travel and imagin...
You can do New Year’s tea ceremony at home!
New Year’s Tea Ceremony at home including meal We usually have New Year’s tea ceremony around 10-11th in January with masters and students. It’s the happy...
Japanese flower arrangements for the New Year
Japanese flower arrangement makes Happy New Year! Temples and shrines in Kyoto start preparing for the New Year from December 13th every year, but maybe common ...
The etiquette of Japanese tea ceremony. ~the way of drinking light tea~
To attend the traditional tea ceremony, is there some etiquette? We start preparing for the New Year’s Day after Christmas. The first tea ceremony is the annual...
Christmas Tea Ceremony
When it comes to Japan’s Christmas, we usually think decorating Christmas trees and having chickens or cakes with family or friends are the mainstream. In this ...
You can do Japanese tea ceremony everywhere!
Japanese Tea Ceremony you can do everywhere! After learning the way of folding the cloth “fukusa” to purify tea utensils and the way of examining a bamboo tea w...
Japanese Tea Ceremony in table and chair style
Japanese Tea Ceremony on the table We have the way of tea in table chair style called “Ryu-rei. It’s the new style created in 1872 by the 11th grand master of U...
The biggest 3 festivals in Kyoto
The biggest 3 festivals in Kyoto Maybe we have festivals every day including small ones in Kyoto, but the biggest 3 are “Aoi”, “Gion”, and “Jidai” festivals. Th...
Feeling seasons in a tea room
Feeling seasons in a tea room Murata Juko created “ro”(winter style. The iron kettle is in the square hole in tatami), and Sennno Rikyu perfected th...
Thick tea & Light tea
Thick tea and light tea for Japanese tea ceremony We have 2 kinds of powdered green tea; a thick one and a light one. A thick one uses a sweeter and less bitter...