Traditional Hobby

Let's find only your Matcha tea set! Tea whisk, tea spoon, tea bowl pottery...When you hope to try tea ceremony, it is good to buy a starter kit. You can instantly experient the Japanese culture with it. But if you intend to drink Matcha green tea on a daily basis, is it enough? You had better have proper utensils if not top quality products. Especially, there are thousands of Matcha tea bowl. Don't you think that you might as well choose the bowl what you like?  ...

 Matcha green tea, the traditional Japanese drinkWhen it comes to the traditional Japanese drink, you may firstly think of sake (Japanese rice wine). But Matcha is also popular around the world in these days. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || ).push({});Other types of Japanese green tea including Sencha and Gyokuro are in the state of the leaves just like as the Western tea. Meanwhile, you use the powder of green tea when you drink Matcha.  Of course, the drink takes the...

Buying Ippodo Matcha powder and tea bags online on Amazon, or at shops?  When you want to drink Matcha or green tea for the tea ceremony or at the home, you would have trouble picking out one because there are too many tea manufacturers and products.   Do you know the types, benefit and drinking way of Japanese green tea? Then why don't you enjoy the high-quality powders or bags of long-established shop at  Kyoto, the home of Matcha in Japan? If you live in Japan or N...

Traditional Nambu Tekki tetsubin kettle     The beginning of the Nambu Tekki was the policy that Nambu domain (today's Iwate Prefecture) had traditionally encouraged to produce the casting. And one of the daimyo who loved tea ceremony invited a kettle maker Koizumi Nizaemon from Kyoto and made him create a new tea kettle. The grandson Nizaemon Ⅲ made the tea kettle smaller and be able to use as a teapot too. It is the appearance of "tetsubin"....

Hagi ware pottery, born for Matcha chawan cupsIn Azuchi-Momoyama Period (1568-1600), the long provincial war in Japan was about to end. The influential daimyos and samurais had to have the social skills for building up the good hierarchical or diplomatic relationships. What most of them could do was the tea ceremony. The tea ceremony had been completed by Sen no Rikyu (1522-1591). Above all, he emphasised to have the mind of quiet simplicity and subdued refinement. That is "Wabi&...

Traditional Japanese stoneware Bonsai pots you can buy on Amazon YUKIMONO, Rectangle Bonsai pot (new) Size:7.0 x 5.5 x 2.0 inches  It is said the introduction of the culture to planting a tree in a pot from China in Heian Period (794-1185). Firstly, the aristocratic people enjoyed the new art, and then the monks and samurais too. The samurai warriors especially love Bonsai as their hobby and it spread throughout the town people in Edo Period (1603-1868). The techniques for...