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Great news!  The Issoan Tea Site is back up again.  It is newly re-designed to make navigation much easier. (And updating much easier fo...

Meet us at the Whole Foods Hollywood WingDing on Saturday July 2nd from 12-5 pm.   They'll be closing off 43rd Avenue between Whole Fo...

My construction manager assures me that I will like it when it is finished.  Whenever there are renovations, we just have to live in the mes...

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...

July 28, 2010 Recycled bottles pop up again, and this time they're a teahouse By LYNN PORTER Journal Staff Reporter Architect Chris...

The summer months of July and August are the most challenging for tea people.  Asa chaji held in the early morning to beat the heat fo...

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...

I've added an audio broadcast of Public Radio 360's "No Time for Tea," by Jennifer Lawton in the left hand column of this ...

Well gee, I just learned how to put some things into the left hand column.   You will see two new things today: an announcement of the new i...

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 ...

I had one day left in New York after the Friends in Tea conference. Roger had given a couple of us a ride as far as a train station near hi...

I found an article that was recently published in the Wall Street Journal on Tea Ceremony . Sen So- Oku , heir to the Mushakojisenke scho...

Many of my students are at a point of acquiring tea utensils. With ebay and the internet it is relatively easy to get tea stuff from Japan....

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...

I’ve been having car troubles lately. I have a 1989 Toyota Supra. I love this car. It is 20 years old. Some of the original parts are f...

Dogu is a term for tea making utensils. My husband laughs at me and calls them tea toys. In fact, all you need for chanoyu is chawan (tea ...

C.H.A. Creative Handmade Art With the study of Chado (Way of Tea) comes the appreciation of beauty. C.H.A. is a Show and Sale of A...

I have some new products up at the SweetPersimmon.com website. Heat wraps - These flannel wraps are filled with rice. Just put them in the...