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 sweets in winter, it’s made of Sake!
Saka Manju is the Japanese sweets usually sold only in winter. Its dough is made of sake, and a sweet bean ball is in it. Saka Manju sold around Fushimi Kyoto i…
Japanese sweets for the New Year’s tea ceremony
We usually have the first tea ceremony around January 10th every year. My master, who is over 80 years old also hold New Year’s tea ceremony for us in 11th this…
How to enjoy tea ceremony?
Although some Japanese people have the strict and inaccessible image for tea ceremony, we have many points to enjoy tea ceremony as it is called “comprehensive …
New Year’s Japanese sweets
Japanese sweets for New Year I’m looking forward the traditional Japanese sweets of the Zodiac in the year or sweets created under the theme of poem competition…
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 …
Winter sweet “A Shogoin Turnip”
When we say “turnips” in Kyoto, it often means a Shogoin turnip, which is famous as the ingredient of tasty Japanese pickles called “Senmai zuke”. In teaceremon…
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…