Eight hundred years ago, tea traveled to Japan from China in simple, ceramic storage jars. These ancient jugs, now on display in Washington, D.C.,... Japanese Tea Ritual Turned 15th Century ...

Japanese Tea and Ritual Room—Uzuki (April) is a research-based interdisciplinary work expanding perspectives on Japanese Tea Culture, seeking new meanings in ritual, and finding common ground between ...

Soko Shimura, deputy tea master of the Urasenke Konnichian, emphasizes the essence of making a perfect cup of matcha while ...

The Charles B. Wang Center at SUNY Stony Brook welcomed visitors to Harmony in a Cup: Japanese Tea Workshop, led by master ...

The moment the host begins speaking you can sense everyone’s heart rate drop. If you have ever been to a yoga class, you know the feeling. When you are settling in on your mat and the teacher says ...

For the Japanese, eating food or drinking beverage is not just an activity which takes a few minutes of your life. It’s an activity connected to deep philosophical meanings and needs to be relished in ...

Bowdoin’s Morita-Sensei celebrates Japanese culture by supplementing her students’ learning of the Japanese language with the complex yet rewarding art of sadō, the Japanese tea ceremony. Studying a ...

The traditional Japanese tea ceremony, or chanoyu, is a graceful ritual that blends art, culture, and mindfulness. Rooted in centuries-old customs, it is far more than the act of drinking tea—it is an ...

NEW YORK -- Finding balance and harmony in New York City is a cup of tea at Globus Washitsu. The Japanese tea room teaches traditional Chanoyu tea rituals, passed down by Samurai, in the heart of the ...

In World War II, Soshitsu Sen, who would become a 15th-generation Japanese grand tea master, packed his tea box and utensils into his luggage and headed off to war, trained as a kamikaze pilot. He ...