Here I describe my first encounter with bubble tea and observations in Japan, Austria and Thailand while exploring the roots and various developments of this beverage.
Author: mitarashidango
Learn more about the treasure of Shōgun Ashikaga Yoshimasa and his art evaluators in this article.
When I studied in Japan, I joined our university tea club. Get some insights about our routines and annual events etc. of our club here.
I would like to wish everyone who drops by a Happy New Year. As you could see, I wasn’t very active in the second half of 2019, which was due…
Since I read about tea plantations in the northern part of Chiang Rai prefecture, Thailand, I decided to visit one of the plantations. This May, I finally took the chance.
This time, I would like to do a film review on Every day a good day by Ōmori Tatsushi a movie about the life of a woman who finds her path in tea.
The last part of this mini-series is about a tea cup from Korea, called Fujibakama or Ran-chawan, being both, a representative for Buncheong ware and Mishima ware.
In this short entry, I want to thank the “Mutual Images Research Association” for introducing my blog in their newsletter.
Oribe-yaki – I guess no other pottery had a greater influence on the aesthetics of Japanese pottery. What are the characteristics of a typical kuro-Oribe-yaki and what is my favourite one? Find out in this blog post.
I would like to introduce my favorite tea cups for chanoyu in three entries. The first one is the most mysterious chawan, called yōhen tenmoku chawan.