So, I apologise that this post is coming far too late to be useful to anyone, but I went to the Chado ~ The Spirit of the Way of Tea ~ exhibition on Saturday (which also happens to be the last day it was open). It was pretty interesting, so I thought I’d just write… Read More Visiting a Chado Exhibition @ Japan Creative Centre
Hello friends! This is the last post in the tea 101 series for a while, and I’m excited to share a cultivar that’s completely new to me – the Tsuyuhikari (つゆひかり)! What is the Tsuyuhikari cultivar? The Tsuyuhikar was created by the Shizuoka Tea Experiment Station (静岡県茶業試験場) in 1970 by crossing Shizu7132 (静7132) as the… Read More Tea 101: Tsuyuhikari
I’m not sure what happened last week but I was down with a sore throat and a bad cough (not covid!) for a few days and didn’t have time to write this post until now. But, the okuharuka cultivar is a very interesting one (albeit one I don’t know what much about) and I’m excited… Read More Tea 101: Okuharuka
Now that I’m back in my dorm working on my thesis, I have time to drink tea (or rather, drinking tea is how I take a break). I’ve also got, including this tea, three more Japanese cultivars to drink and I’m so excited about it! So here’s a tea that I’ve been looking forward to… Read More Tea 101: Fukumidori
It has been almost a month since my last Tea 101 post, so we are long overdue for this look into Musashi Kaori! What is the Musashi Kaori cultivar? Created in 1967 as a cross between the yabukita and the intriguingly labelled “27F1-73”, the Musashi Kaori is distinguished by its refreshing scent and umami note.… Read More Tea 101: Musashi Kaori
I have a big, tea-related talk on Saturday so I really, really wanted to have a tea-related post this week. I’ve been drinking sencha made from the hokumei cultivar, so I thought it was the perfect tea to look into! What is the Hokumei Cultivar? The hokumei cultivar was developed in Saitama prefecture by combining… Read More Tea 101: The Hokumei Cultivar
Hello my tea friends! We are back with a new cultivar to look into – and it’s a very interesting one today. What is the Gokoh Cultivar? I say the Gokoh cultivar is interesting because all these teas that I’m drinking are sencha (steamed green tea, which is different from Chinese green teas which tend… Read More Tea 101: The Gokoh Cultivar
I’ve continued drinking more sencha (I mean, it’s not like I want to stop) so here’s another installment in this series on Japanese tea cultivars. There’s not a lot about the Yumewakaba out there, for reasons I’ll explain soon, but here’s what I could find. What is the Yumewakaba cultivar? Unlike the Yabukita cultivar, which… Read More Tea 101: the Yumewakaba cultivar
I have been drinking the teas sent to me by the NPO Agriculture Support Team in Saitama and I noticed that they’ve started producing teas made with the yabukita cultivar, which I didn’t see when I bought the teas from them last year! The yabukita cultivar is actually the most common tea cultivar in Japan,… Read More Tea 101: the Yabukita cultivar
Despite the fact that I’m a huge fan of Japanese tea, I’ve only attended a tea once, as part of my finishing school course. With the brashness of youth, I agreed to be the 正客 (main guest) and with a lot of prompting from the teachers and guest lecturers, somehow made it through the ceremony.… Read More Book Review: Every Day a Good Day by Noriko Morishita