Tales of Japanese tea

I started to think that my cold sencha recipe is not very practical as I prepare the tea. It takes time and consume a lot of tea leaf, and...

There is a café called Ocobo at Kakuozan, Nagoya, which I’ve always wanted to visit. The other day, I finally had the chance. When I got ...

You rinse the tea bowl before and after making matcha in a tea ceremony. There is a certain way of wiping the wet tea bowl using a spec...

A special linen cloth is used to wipe the tea bowl in a tea ceremony. It is called chakin which is about 30*15cm (12*6in) large. Before...

I rarely drink Chinese tea, but the other day, I got pu-erh tea from a friend of mine.     I don’t have any Chinese tea utensils and ...

When Japanese people shake hands with westerners, we sometimes bow while shaking hands.   It might look comical to you, but I have probabl...

We bow even in Japanese martial arts, judo , karate or kendo .   I started taking aikido (a kind of martial arts) lesson last year.   I ...

“The way to make you happy in 5 minutes”   On a TV program on NHK, they introduced how to make hojicha with such catch phrase.   Hojich...

TV can’t deliver the smell to the viewers.   A TV program on NHK was trying to explore the aroma of hojicha , roasted green tea.   They ha...

“I’m pleased.”, “I feel so good.” or “I want to try it at home.”   On a TV program on NHK, the interviewees were answering such when they ...