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A collection of 16 issues

Chaxi at the 7 river bends

While not an extreme chaxi, this was a beautifully memorable one. Our host in japan, Mr. Yasuo Koike, has been of the most gracious sort, and we are now in Shizouka, a tea growing Provence. We made a special 2 part chaxi on top of Asahi Dan Mountain overlooking a

100 views of no Mt. Fuji

Clouds form far from sight, Rolling in to hide, The site. Mt fuji was meant to be, viewed, but perhaps not by me. This time. – Jason

Sumo

Sumo is unsurprisingly awesome! I got lucky, and happened to be in Nagoya during day 3 of the tournament. Each match starts with “cold warfare” – a stare down, where each wrestler gauges the other and decides when to strike. There`s a time limit of 4 minutes before the match

Tea with Edosenke

Another stop on life’s to do list? Yes! To formerly begin the Tea Institutes relationship and discuss our Experiential Learning program in Japan with the Edosenke Chanoyu School based in Tokyo, the Imoto invited us for tea. Imoto style. (An Imoto is the Grand Master of a school) The

Sencha…

Is your tea marine-ey and vegital with a strong mineral note? Than your probably drinking sencha (or stale Chinese green tea). Does it have any small amount of depth or complexity to it at all? Then your probably drinking Gyokuro (or better stale Chinese green tea). All the (findable) sencha

Tokyo – Expectation and Reality

I had a vision of Tokyo, formed from popular perceptions, colored by movies and photos, enhanced from books I have read and stories told by one traveler to another; I imagined a city of crammed streets, bright lights, pockets of glitter and gold catering to the jet setting rich of