SweetPersimmon

I'd like to take this opportunity to acknowledge one of my huge supporters, Barbara Walker.  Barbara and I have shared our love for t...

A wonderful day of tea Saturday at the Issoan Tea School.  Students celebrated the Star Festival with a chakai put on the advanced class who...

Zen and tea are one taste.  This is the philosphy that though Zen and the Way of Tea are different activities, the mental attitude and appro...

There are many examples of tea utensils from the 16th century and earlier because they were so well taken care of.  Tea utensils were made t...

Part of learning tea is how to put things away.  This diagram is the standard pattern for where things should go in the mizuya.  If you go t...

When I left my sensei to begin teaching, she gave me a list of guidelines to help me set up my own school.  One of the most important was th...

Every week we go to okeiko to practice the procedures for making tea. Inside the tea room there are rules and etiquette to guide us in the p...

When people see a tea room, they do not think of the mizuya, the preparation room. It is the training ground for the tea room and here that...

The end of the year is fast approaching. The Japanese have a tradition of preparing for the new year by cleaning and settling up so that on...

In searching for myself, I have had many jobs. I have had a career that has taken me all over the world and yet none of that was my work. W...

Your mom probably told you to do this as a kid. As an adult and a tea student, we know that we cannot depend on anyone else to clean up our...

I am good at cleaning. I didn’t used to be. Before I studied chado, I was a slob. My room was a mess, my desk at work was a mess, in fact ...