Tea Ceremony

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Shozo Sato. Tea Ceremony

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Over the four-hundred-year history of the tea ceremony, hundreds of valuable books have been published. I consider myself merely an interpreter of this great practice of cha no yu and introducer to the Western world, especially to young people. In creating this book, I owe much to the following people: my teacher Kishimoto Kosen, who has been my mentor for over a half century; from Dai Nippon Chado Gakkai Headquarters in Tokyo, both Ehara Shou, for her scholarly guidance, and its president, Tanaka Seno, author of Tea Ceremony, a well-known book originally published by Kodahsha; Tanaka Misho of Chado Gakkai School, who is teaching the tea ceremony at the Kikuzawa Higashi Elementary School of Shika numa City, Tochigi prefecture; Anzai Chizuko of the Urasenke School, who teaches at Sanbonmatsu Elementary School of Hachioji in Tokyo; Professor Kimiko Gunji of the Japan House, University of Illinois, for photography; and the children. Photographs were taken by Shozo Sato at Zakyu, a center for Japanese arts in northern California.

In Japan, a special tradition was developed to create a calm and wonderful atmosphere for drinking tea. This tradition is called the tea ceremony. It is based not just on sharing a cup of tea with a friend, but on experiencing a special moment in a very relaxing kind of place.

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Japanese children enjoy a tea ceremony.

I will present the tea ceremony as it is traditionally performed, using the traditional tools. You may need to modify some of the steps with what is available to you. The traditional ceremony calls for matcha, which is a powdered green tea. You must also have a whisk for the powdered tea.

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