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An interesting article by Dr. Andrew Weil about the health benefits of green tea.  In part two he talks about drinking matcha in the morn...

The new year for tea is upon us. Frost is forming and the mountain passes are filling with snow. The landscape and people are preparin...

Hisashi Yamada, a loving and devoted tea ceremony teacher at Urasenke Chanoyu Center of New York, passed away on April 18, 2009 at the age o...

Congratulations to President-elect Obama on his run for the Whitehouse. In November, the winter time hearth is opened. The ro is a sunken h...

In the previous post, The host revealed , and by questions at tea demonstrations, I have been asked again and again about how much talking i...

I had an opportunity earlier this week to attend a lecture and demonstration on Kodo, the way of incense. Kodo is a traditional Japanese ar...

"Guest and host both joined as one, share a bowl of tea. In tranquil meditation, no margin divides their hearts. The tea garden is a wa...

Matcha tea is the powdered green tea used in the Japanese tea ceremony but more people are beginning to drink matcha. Starbucks has a drink...

I have a class graduating from the 10 week introductory class and we are holding our final chakai (tea gathering) in a few days at Kashintei...

When we first begin to learn chanoyu, it seems like all we can manage is to remember the order of things, and getting control of our bodies ...

As member of the information age, it is always the next thing, then the next thing, even before we master the previous thing. By the time w...

In the course of my lessons for chado I had to drive across town after work to get to class. That meant fighting traffic for 45 minutes to ...

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...

Since ancient time in Japan, poetry has played a major role in cultural life and continues to be widely practiced today. One direct way tha...

I have been looking forward to the solstice this year, and looking back on my writing, it seems to be preoccupied with light and sun lately....

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...