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Makinohara city and JA-Hainan annually hold a local tea festival in Makinohara on March. As same as the last year, tea shoots cultivated in green house are processed by hand making. Young tea farmers (youth club in JA-Hainan) processed the … Continue reading
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Washoku is the Japanese cuisine backed by the tradition and spirit of Japan. According to the definition of UNESCO, Washoku is a social practice based on a set of skills, knowledge, practice and traditions related to the production, processing, preparation … Continue reading
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Japan has various new year’s events and traditions. For example, Japanese usually eat Soba noodle as a meal on the end of year, so-called “Toshikoshi Soba”, which means Soba for the change for new year. I prepared “Toshikoshi Soba” with … Continue reading
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Makinohara teas are widely used by various shops. Today, I’d like to report the attempt of collaboration between a tea farmer and a glossary shop. The glossary shop, “Myrte” in Fujieda city, sells a variety of fancy goods, including Japanese … Continue reading
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In the autumn program of World Tea Festival, I could meet the nice arts of tea! Painting and tower of loose leaf tea were presented by Temomi Hozonkai. This painting of loose leaf tea draws Mt. Fuji and “Princess Kaguya” … Continue reading
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JA-Hainan supports and holds “Aracha” competitions after first flush season. On the end of May, two competitions were held by a local association of tea farmers and JA-Hainan. In this year, the quality of first flush is evaluated to be … Continue reading
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There are multihued teawares all over the world. Of course, Japan has a variety of teaware in each area. In World Tea Festival 2016, various teawares from around Japan were exhibited with teas from each tea estate as follows. … Continue reading
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Flower arrangement has been related to teaism for a long time. Teamasters have philosophy to embody the beauty in their life, thus they create the beauty in tea ceremony using flower decoration as a practice of their philosophy. OKAKURA Tenshin, … Continue reading
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Second Sunday of May is Mother’s day in many countries. First flush of Hachiju-Hachiya is recommended as a candidate of the best gifts for mother. In Japan, first tea produced at Hachiju-Hachiya, 1st May in this year, is believed to … Continue reading
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5th May is celebrated as one of the Japanese National Holidays so-called “Children’s Day”. In this holiday, many Japanese eat the traditional Japanese confection, “Kashiwa-mochi”, rice cake containing sweet soy paste wrapped in an oak leaf. Kashiwa-mochi is believed as … Continue reading