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Minako sensei passed away 10 years ago today.  It was devastating at the time, and I felt unconnected and motherless.  I can hardly believe ...

To my readers, I apologize for the lapse in blogging this last month.  I will do better going forward. For those of you who have emailed m...

I want to acknowledge and thank Janelle for her donation to Issoan Tea School.   A box arrived the other day that contained 3 kimono (summer...

I love to enter the tea room, view the scroll and flowers and smell the incense.   The tea room is a safe place where the rules of etiquette...

I have already written posts about going back to basics and back to one again , but for this week's lessons we are changing to the ro ...

Hello blog readers, When I started this blog two and a half years ago, I had one or two students and I began to write about Chado for them...

My friend Margaret Chula, poet, has a new book out. What Remains: Japanese Americans in Internment Camps , Poems by Margaret Chula, Art Qu...

I have finally decided what I will be offering for prizes for the contest in honor of the 250th blog post at SweetPersimmon. Thank you all ...

It is not often that we give ourselves permission to love, or let alone talk about the things we love. These days it is hip and cool to be...

Jordan at Succession of Insights blog has tagged me with The Honest Scrap award. I didn ’t know that someone thought so highly of this blo...

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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...

I just returned from Seattle where Dr. Genshitsu Sen, the retired Grand Tea Master of Urasenke School of tea visited last week. During the ...

I wanted to write something about this as the last post was about desire and achieving goals. So often I compare myself to other people and...

In my study of Chado, I have had some very strict sensei. They would watch me make tea and pick apart everything from how I wore my kimon...

The etiquette of receiving a bowl of tea at a tea ceremony may seem somewhat tedious as there is a lot of handling and moving the bowl aroun...

In Japanese, sempai is the word for senior students. Kohai is the word for junior students. For many people who have not grown up with the...