Immerse yourself in a Japanese tea ceremony while wearing a kimono at Tokujuji, a 300-year-old Zen Buddhist temple on Itsukushima, an island near Hiroshima. Though the style of drinking powdered green ...

I've never personally seen a real Japanese tea ceremony before, so I couldn't pass up the chance to see it live at Katsucon. The Comiku Girls hosted the event, and they are 10 year veterans of the ...

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For over 30 years, Midori Mochizuki has invited people to experience matcha in a more intentional way, with a traditional version of the practice that is more than 500 years old. It is a way of life ...

In Japan, tea ceremony (cha-dou) is revered as a way to a gain deeper insights into life and philosophy. Traditional Japanese tea ceremony practitioners put in long hours to master the intricacies and ...

In the U.S., Tea Party politics refers to a certain strain of Republican conservatism. But in Japan, tea politics are of an altogether different sort: The ritual drinking of this ancient beverage — ...

That’s the primary commodity being offered by Zen House Kominka, a guest house and tea room that opened in the spring of 2024 just north of Enterprise. The business is owned and operated by Kiyomi ...

There is more to Zen than the Japanese tea ceremony. There is no more to Zen than the Japanese tea ceremony. All there is? Zen is like that... Apparently full of impossible contradictions! It is hard ...

A Japanese World War II-era sailor this morning performed the first sacred Japanese tea ceremony aboard the USS Arizona Memorial, a national monument and the symbol of Japanese aggression that ...

(The Conversation) — Social media has turned traditional Japanese matcha into a commercial trend, though its roots lie in Zen Buddhism. A scholar of premodern Japanese literature unpacks that history.