Tea Ceremony

Date: 11/18/2011
Place: Holcomb Hall

What is the Tea Ceremony?
Tea ceremony is called Sado in Japan. Sado is the ritualistic making and drinking of green macha powdered tea. Senno Rikyu perfected the art of Sado in the sixteenth century. Hosts entertain guests by making green macha powdered tea. 

Sado first developed to suppress fighting ways. Thus, the tea room is a small Japanese-style room surrounded by a beautiful garden. When you sit down in a tea room, you will feel at ease. People usually wear a kimono when serving tea at a tea ceremony. 
First of all, the owner carries a tea cup into the tea room. Then he hands out Japanese-style sweets. After that, he starts to make preparations fro green macha powdered tea. When you taste macha tea for the first time, you may find it more bitter than you had expected.

The daily drinking of green tea is important to calm one's self. 

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-Program-

• Showing the history of tea
• Skit
• Otemae... procedure for making tea
• Providing green tea and some foods

Additional Information:
The History And Culture Of Japanese Tea

Otemae performed by Yoshiki Tsunemoto

Some Sweets

-Foods-

• Green Tea
• Fried Suger Coated Dough
• Rice Ball in Sweet Bean Paste
• Rice Ball in Soybean Flour

Presentation presented by Keisuke Nakane

Skit performed by Shinya Fukuda and Sumio Mori

Additional Info: "Tea Ceremony" facebook

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