In a contemporary tea ceremony, guests will lower their heads as they enter an intimate space that’s often surrounded by a garden. The host will have assembled unique, idiosyncratic tea utensils ...

If the ceremony, as the tea masters say, takes 10 years of applied study to fully understand, we begin to grasp why entire books might be devoted to the subject.

The sheer output of the craftsmen they employed reveals an indefatigable support of the arts that extended to the amassing of beautifully crafted swords, armor, art and tea-ceremony utensils.

The ritualized drinking of tea in Japan, called chado, or the way of tea, is a uniquely Japanese art form that has thrived for 500 years.While the heart of the ceremony involves brewing, serving ...

The traditional Japanese tea ceremony. According to Kawakami, a traditional matcha tea ceremony can be broken down into five parts: preparation, appreciation of the tea utensils, tea preparation ...

Japanese tea ceremony or Chado is based on four main principles – Wa, Ke Sei and Jaku Dubai: In Japan, tea ceremony schools have tea masters who teach the ‘art of tea’. This four-hour long ...

DUXBURY – The Japanese Tea Ceremony embodies the culture, history and art of Japan. Above all, the ritual aims to savor the present because every moment is unique and can never be relived. The ...

Tea master Yaeko Asami demonstrates the brewing of matcha in the tea ceremony room at her home in Saitama, Japan, on June 10, 2023 Zhang Xiaoyu / Xinhua via Getty Images ...