Tendai Tenmoku” is one of the four tea ceremony styles of Urasenke. This is a tea ceremony in which the bowl is placed on the Tenmoku-dai (stand). Tenmoku tea bowls were prized for their excellent heat retention of tea and were used for important tea ceremonies such as Daiko-deme and Kijin-deme. Because both the tenmoku-chawan […]
The basic tea ceremony is the noon tea ceremony held in the afternoon. There are also morning tea ceremonies in the early morning and evening tea ceremonies in the evening. The noon tea ceremony often begins between 11:30 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. and lasts about four hours. The flow is as follows. Hatsu-za (zen-za): Hatsu-tan-te, […]
What is Karamono? This is one of the four tea ceremony traditions. This is a tea ceremony in which we handle a venerable karamono tea caddy. What is Karamono (ceramics)? Karamono refers mainly to ceramics imported from China. Tea masters especially prized the rare ceramics from the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. Points to […]
