Samurai loved tea ceremony, Cha-do so much! I don’t know much about warrior and Samurai and have no experience of them. However, when you listen to...

What are Thick tea and Thin 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 swee...

Japanese sweets in the tea ceremony Eating sweets will make a green tea even more delicious, so we usually finish eating sweets before drinking pow...

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 the ...

Local Event in Kyoto for winter. Boiling radish! Some shrines and temples in Kyoto have the event of boiling Japanese white radish in the beginning o...

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...

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 b...

Enjoy Tea Ceremony for Christmas! When it comes to Japan’s Christmas, we usually think decorating Christmas trees and having chickens or cakes with f...

Public bath in Kyoto ~the day for the citron~ It is said that bath with citron “yuzuyu” has the origin in Kyoto. The winter solstice is the shortest...

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 i...

Japanese sweets in winter When we say “turnips” in Kyoto, it often means a Shogoin turnip, which is famous as the ingredient of tasty Japanese pickle...

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 ...