Beautiful tea untensils
Have you ever attended to a formal Japanese tea ceremony? You might be surprised to hear that the formal tea ceremony takes around four hours. During the formal tea ceremony, guests eat a beautifully presented traditional simple meal (usually rice, soup, fish and seasonal vegetables), one main beautiful crafted confection (usually made of bean paste) and dry sweets (usually candies or rice crackers) to enhance the flavour of tea, and two types of Matcha. One is Koicha (thick tea) and the other one is called Usucha (thin tea). Around the 15th century, Juko Murata started the style of Chado (tea ceremony) which was completed by Riku Sen who added the idea of Zen to Chado. You may remember that Theresa May was welcomed by the Japanese...