2023-07-282023-07-28Tea Events, Tea News Chakai 茶会 – a Tea Gathering On 15th July I attended a “Chakai”. Talking with the person that made it and her difficulty in translating the word into […]
2023-02-282023-03-31Tea Culture, Tea Kinds, Tea Recipes How to Prepare Matcha Here we are, back with our series of articles about the mighty green powder: matcha 抹茶! The trend of matcha has taken […]
2022-10-292023-03-31GJTea News, Tea Events Event at Asian Studies Society in Madrid, Spain On 19th October Anna was invited by Sociedad de Estudios Asiáticos of University Francisco de Vitoria of Madrid, to give a talk […]
2022-02-252022-05-31Tea Culture, Tea Personalities, Tea Regions Tanimura Tango and Takayama Chasen (高山の茶筅) The traditional whisk used to prepare matcha is called chasen (茶筅). It was invented in Takayama, a little mountain town in Nara […]
2021-04-272022-05-31Tea Culture, Tea Education Books on Japanese Tea 2021 We said many times there is not much published on Japanese tea in other languages and some time ago we reviewed 3 […]
2020-10-302022-05-31GJTea News, Tea Events, Tea News Nomad Tea Festival 2020 During the past weekend of 24th and 25th of October, Nomad Tea Festival Europe was celebrated online. At the festival, participants could […]