In the north of Uji city in Kyōto prefecture lies Ōbaku-san Manpuku-ji, a Chinese-style Zen temple, which also is the main temple of the Ōbaku school of Buddhism in Japan and has a deep connection to sencha-dō (煎茶道), the way of sencha or sencha tea ceremony.
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When I first visited the Iruma City Museum (入間市博物館), I learned about different local tea cultures around Japan. In this blog entry, I want to talk about one of them: bukubuku-cha, which is a local way of enjoying tea in Okinawa.