Ever since I was a kid I was intrigued by the beautiful, exotic arts of Japan. I used to go to the library to look through their enormous volume of Hokusai prints, and I never missed a museum exhibition of Japanese arts or crafts. I’ve learned and taught origami, dabbled in Japanese brush painting, and …
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Tea Wares from Occupied Japan
During the post-World War II years, the USA spent a great deal of money and manpower to help our former enemies rebuild their economies. One of these projects in Japan was the re-establishment of ceramics production. While Japan had a centuries-old tradition of ceramics (stoneware, china, porcelain) ranging from functional to decorative before the war, …
Tea Haiku
Tea is very popular in Japan, practically the national beverage. Haiku is a form of poetry that originated in Japan. So a tea haiku or two seems totally expected. A poetry form that embraces nature combined with the tea that comes from nature plus how that tea affects our lives. In an art class I …
Going Genmaicha!
One of the best known Japanese green teas is actually a blend of tea and rice. Toasty tea taste goodness. From the first time I tasted it I was hooked and am now totally going Genmaicha! Well, maybe not totally. But I am drinking quite a bit of it these days. Legend has it that …
Japanese Black Tea
Japan and black tea - they go together like…well. Ummm. Actually black tea and Japan don’t go together all that well at all, at least not as far as most of us are aware. When we think of Japanese tea most of us think of a variety of green teas that range from okay to …
Tea Growing Regions of Japan: Shizuoka
When it comes to ranking the world's largest tea producers, Japan is not in the running and probably never will be. The laurels in this department go to such mega-producers as China and India, as well as a number of lesser luminaries. What Japan is noted for is producing what are arguably some of the …
Green Tea And Health: The Ohsaki Study
Tea is good for you. Now that’s a pretty blunt statement but - as you may have noticed if you've been reading some of the articles published in these pages lately - there have been a number of studies released over the past decade or so to support this assertion. One of the more noteworthy …
Shincha For Spring
In the spring, if we might paraphrase the great poet Alfred Lord Tennyson just a bit, a tea lover’s fancy may turn to thoughts of shincha. Japan is renowned for a number of excellent varieties of green tea and, of these, shincha is considered by many to be one of the best. A Japanese term …
Celebrate Spring with Kyoto Cherry Rose Tea
The Vernal Equinox is almost upon us – and that means Spring is finally here.The long-awaited coming of Spring is a time of excitement known the world over, as trees and flowers bloom and the world wakes up from the somber sleep of Winter. This blossoming of the natural world has long been reason for …
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Japanese Green Tea
While tea from China comes in many colors including white, green, brown (oolong) and black, all tea from Japan is green. There are three main types of green tea from Japan. Sencha is the most common tea served as an every day drink in Japan. While there are high-quality Sencha tea leaves that are plucked …
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