Oct 17

Our New Zusetsu Tea Towel!

Our new Zusetsu Geisha Dance Tea Towel design I visited Kyoto in the spring, and the lanes of Gion and the adjacent temple grounds at...

Mar 12

JanuaryInJapan Book Club 2024 Review: The Wisdom of Tea

Thank you so much to everyone who joined us this year for our online JanuaryInJapan Book Club event! We meet once a year and we're very...

Sep 7, 2023

The Wisdom of Tea: Tea Ceremony in Kyoto

So spring fled, summer blazed, and autumn winds began to blow- when, our eyes lifted heavenward toward the meeting of the Stars, we write...

Jan 20, 2023

Kyoto and Tokyo Travel Journal, Fall 2022

It was almost three years to the day when we returned to Kyoto in November 2022. In the intervening time, when it was not possible to...

Jul 28, 2022

Tea Ceremony and Tanabata with Camellia Kyoto

This year's Tanabata could not have been more special. We visited the Camellia Garden Teahouse in north west Kyoto, live on Instagram,...

Mar 24, 2022

Cha no Yu - A Sense of Beauty

茶の煙柳と共にそよぐ也 cha no kemuri yanagi to tomo ni soyogu nari the tea smoke and the willow together trembling I often think back to the tea...

May 27, 2021

Discover Kiyomizu-yaki Ceramic Ware!

Kiyomizu-yaki ware: A Ceramic Kyoto Matcha Chawan Teabowl in Plum I was given a beautiful matcha tea bowl (chawan) for Christmas by...

Mar 3, 2021

Tea and Hina Matsuri with Mai!

Happy Hinamatsuri Day! Today is March 3rd, which is the day of Hinamatsuri (Girls' Day) in Japan! In honour of this celebration, our dear...

Feb 18, 2021

What is Hina Matsuri?

Yukki's set of hina dolls that her parents bought for her when she was born :) Are you interested in Japanese festivals and traditions?...

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