SweetPersimmon

It is a funny thing that students think that the sensei has so much control of the students in what they teach them and how they teach them....

When I first began to learn about Chado, I thought I could become a tea master in ten lessons. But I found out in those first ten lessons j...

Observing is much harder than doing in tea. Perhaps in life as well. When I began to study tea making procedures, I was very excited to mak...

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 Japanese are famous for packaging. Even when you buy vegetables at the market, they wrap or tie them up in very pleasing ways. Depart...