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The Sacred And The Profane: The Role Of Women In Edo Period Tea Culture

August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets

Reiko Tanimura WHEN THE ART CRITIC AND PHILOSOPHER Okakura Kakuzo (1862-1913) chose wabicha, the form of chanoyu perfected by Sen no Rikyu in the sixteenth century, as a typical example...

Tianjin Teahouses, Shanghai Fuchaguan Teahouses and Guangdong Tearooms

August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets

Tianjin became a city after the Jin and Yuan dynasties to service the Great Canal. It has been an important industrial and commercial metropolis in North China in the modem...

Beijing Teahouse Culture

August 02, 2021UmiTea Sets

Beijing teahouses epitomized the advantages of other local teahouses, and were noted for their great variety, complete functions, and rich and profound cultural aims. Historically, there were many kinds of...

Buddhist Thought And The Way Of Tea

July 31, 2021UmiTea Sets

Dennis Hirota THE TRADITIONAL JAPANESE PRACTICE known in English as the "tea ceremony" or "way of tea" was referred to in early writings simply as chanoyu, or "tea in hot...

Teatime: An Introduction

July 31, 2021UmiTea Sets

Beatrice Hohengger THE QUESTION "D0 YOU TAKE SALT IN YOUR TEA?" was not uttered, as one might guess, by an absentminded hostess in an Oscar Wilde play, but it certainly...

The Way Of Tea In Japan

July 31, 2021UmiTea Sets

Beatrice Hobenegger TEA WAS PRAISED BY CHINESE DAOISTS as an elixir of immortality and has long been a revered beverage in spiritual practices. This is especially true in Japan where...

Tea In China: Form Its Mythological Origins To The Qing Dynasty

July 31, 2021UmiTea Sets

Steven D. Ooeyoung MORE THAN TWELVE CENTURIES AGO, the first words of the Chajing, or Book of Tea, portrayed a stately evergreen deep within the primeval forest as the progenitor...

Learning Pottery In Yixing, China

July 31, 2021UmiTea Sets

Terese Tse Bartholomew PRIOR TO THE MING DYNASTY (1368-1644), Chinese most often drank tea that was whisked in powdered form (ground from tea cakes) into hot water contained in bowls....

China Gradle Of Tea Gulture

July 31, 2021UmiTea Sets

Author/paintings: Wu De (Aaron Fisher) Have a cup Two young monks were on a pilgrimage, as their ilk was wont lo do when in youth they still believed in smirching...

First Global Exhibition of the Tea Industry: Guangzhou Tea Expo Will Take Place Grandly from Nov. 24 to Nov. 27

July 31, 2021UmiTea Sets

Six Major Exhibition Areas Will Gather Excellent Tea Production Enterprises of the World Guangzhou Tea Expo reputed as "No. 1 Global Exhibition of Tea Industry" in the trade will open...

Thunder - Tempest In A Cup

July 31, 2021UmiTea Sets

Author/paintings: Wu De (Aaron Fisher) Have a cup Two young monks were on a pilgrimage, as their ilk was wont lo do when in youth they still believed in smirching...

WORLD TEA EAST BLOSSOMS, SHINES THE SPOTLIGHT ON TEA PIONEER JOHN HARNEY

July 31, 2021UmiTea Sets

Successful Regional Tea Event Gathers the Industry，Recognizes Harney & Sons Founder with the 2011 Cha Ting Lifetime Achievement Award AS VEGAS, Nev. (Sept. 22, 2011) - The World Tea East Lebut...