SweetPersimmon

I'd like to introduce to you a guest blogger, Stephanie.  She is a student and has been studying for more than 2 1/2 years.  Earlier thi...

The students from Issoan Tea put on their summer chakai last weekend.  I am going to post photos and kaiki.  It was a playful twist to the t...

Today I had the lucky opportunity of hosting a chakai for people that I had never met.  However these two people had traveled many thousan...

We have a lot of events coming up this fall, in addition to the busy summer.  I promise that I will get back onto a schedule of regular bl...

As my classes are preparing to host a chakai this summer, I thought that I would talk a little about tea gatherings.   Chakai are rat...

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...

I can't believe it is May already.  It seems like we haven't started spring yet here on the upper left coast of America.   The forec...

We just concluded Hatsugama for 2012.   These events take considerable planning, but it does make it one of the most spectacular tea even...

Someone referred to me recently as a tea master, and I was embarrassed enough to correct them by saying I was still a student of tea.  In tr...

I know for many of you sweets are one of the reasons that you come to class to drink tea.   I hope you have all appreciated my poor attempt...

Thank you to the guests who attended Issoan Tea School Hatusgama. I enjoyed hosting you so much that I want to do it all over again.  Here...

Issoan Tea Robiraki 2010 Scroll:  Kan za matsu kaze o kiku “Sit and listen to the wind in the pines” Chatsubo:  Iga with net bag Flower...

The rain has started here in the Pacific Northwest and preparations are underway for Robiraki, one of the big tea events of the year.   We w...

One of the most memorable chakai that I attended when I lived in Kyoto was the Hotarubi no chakai at Shimogamo shrine. The tea gathering tha...

I have added a link to my good friend Maggie Chula's blog .  She is an internationally published haiku poet and has just posted an excel...

In 1872 the Urasenke 11th generation Grand Tea Master, Gengensai, submitted a formal letter of protest to the Meiji government, the Chado no...

"After host and guest have expressed their feelings of regret and after the final farewells have been said, the guests depart through...

I have a tea friend in Seattle who has been collecting whimsical things to use for an April Fool's Day chakai.  I love his sense of humo...