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lecture at japan society
At Japan Society

The grandmaster explained the origin of the Sencha tea ceremony, concrete kinds of tea leaves, ways of drinking and infusing tea. It contains smaller amount of tea compared with coffee. Its caffein works as stimulants and sedatives. It attracted a lot of attention as a health food. He explained how to pour hot water onto tealeaves, adequate temperature of hot water, suitable way of pouring it onto tea leaves and quality of each leaves and adequate temperature of hot water for each tea leaves. Some of participants asked questions. One woman asked how to measure temperature of hot water in Sencha ritual. He said that it was a secret in the Sencha tea ceremony and demonstrated how to measure its temperature in sencha rituals in front of them. They admired and sounded very convinced. He analyzed that the rituals of sencha tea ceremony are made up of a series of rational motions.

 

teatasting

We served a small amount of tea in tiny Gyokuro tea cup. Each participants tasted two cups of tea, listening to an episode of Natume Souseki "the Three corner of art". As usual they are astonished at the very small amount of tea. A participant asked why its aroma stimulated greatly and expanded in his mouth but its amount is very small compared with tea in a bowl of Chanoyu. Disciples were moved by their good impression.

 
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Approximately 10 kinds of tea leaves were displayed on the desk. Some of the participants smelled, touched and tasted them. A lady asked where she could purchase an originally blended tea of Ogawa School.
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Princeton Univ.

Prof. Collcut interpreted at Japan Society. We visited his faculty. Grandmaster made a lecture about history of sencha and its development as sencha tea ceremony. Students tasted sencha tea , looking at ritual for gyokuro tea leaves and bancha tea leaves. They asked some questions like what was the origin of "Kouraku", grandmaster's name, what was different between teacups for sencha tea and bancha tea and how different it was between taste of first serving and second serving.and so on.

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Grandmaster greeted guests and explained the gathering of the sencha tea ceremony briefly. Gyokuro tea was served to each of them. A guest described the taste as grass. Some guests appreciated the tea utensils after tea party.
 
   
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