Tea culture in Japan

[Airth]

おーぃ　お茶！　
One of the most popular tea from Ito En is : "Oi ---o Cha!"

My favourite by far. Well, at least the bottled variety anyway. Besides the taste, I particularly like their ongoing Haiku competition with the winning entries being printed on the side of every bottle; it gives you something to think about while sipping away.

[robert]

Yes, here is explanation :
http://www.teahyakka.com/yinyanglayout.html
as we can see world of japanese tea is very deep.
best wishes..

[robert]

Shincha - tea of this year is already available. The most delicate and fresh among Senchas.
More explanations about Shincha you can find at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shincha_tea

[mplana]

Hello minna-san,

I was about to suggest a Culture Class about tea in Japan, but first I had a look at what was cooking in the forum and I found this interesting thread. Sugoi!

I manage a website about tea; unfortunatelly it is in Spanish, but if you are curious, you can have a look: http://www.tebebo.com/

I also wrote an article about tea in Spain for a Japanese magazine about Spanish culture (that was some time ago). If someone is interested, I can send it along in Japanese.

You have given a lot of interesting links here; thank you everybody.

Mata ne,
Marcela

[Ulver_684]

Hello minna-san,

I was about to suggest a Culture Class about tea in Japan, but first I had a look at what was cooking in the forum and I found this interesting thread. Sugoi!

I manage a website about tea; unfortunatelly it is in Spanish, but if you are curious, you can have a look: http://www.tebebo.com/

I also wrote an article about tea in Spain for a Japanese magazine about Spanish culture (that was some time ago). If someone is interested, I can send it along in Japanese.

You have given a lot of interesting links here; thank you everybody.

Mata ne,
Marcela

Mplana-san!

Great tea Spanish link! Thank you mina-san for all those great and useful links.
I have learn alot about Japanese tea that I didn't knew!

[robert]

Very nice CM
http://www.suntory.co.jp/softdrink/iyemon/cm/index.html
ice green tea 夏　客人　編

[atomsk]

Hey robert!

I like kabuse matcha genmai. But its so hard to get good tea here in germany.

[Amenat]

I love Sencha and matcha but some of the bottled teas are down right gross. I have no idea what teas I tried that I liked but I now know which ones to stay away from.

Too bad the only way you can get Japanese powdered teas in most places is to buy online. I'm lucky in a way, I can get several different kind of teas at my local asian market but not as many as I'd like.

I wonder just how many kinds there are.