Life in Japan: Japanese Art of Tea Ceremony

今日(きょう)のブログは、お茶会(ちゃかい)イベントの詳細(しょうさい)についてと茶箱点前(ちゃばこてまえ)についてです。

Today's blog topics are:

　　　　　Chabako(tea box) temae(procedures)

　　　　　Our spring tea ceremony

Our school teacher, Shimizu-sensei who is also an experienced tea master wrote the below.

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“Chabako temae" - Urasenke

We have a variety of serving style of the Japanese traditional tea.

This Chabako temae is one of them.

Chabako means tea box. Temae means procedures.

All utensils that necessary for serve of tea are in the box compactly.

It's very cute and also convenient to carry around.

Therefore you can enjoy Japanese traditional tea not only in side but also out of doors cozily with Chabako.

And you can also enjoy Japanese sweets with tea.

I'm sure that you would be interested in this and enjoy the Japanese traditional tea ceremony.

We hope that you will have a fun time!

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We will hold "お茶会(ちゃかい) = a tea ceremony" at April 2nd at our school.

The details are:

Date: April 2nd (Saturday)

Time: 13:00 - 15:00

Place: Our school

Price: JPY1,500/person (includes tea and sweets)

Contents:

1. What is Japanese art of tea ceremony?

2. How to drink tea and eat Japanese sweets?

3. Let's have tea and sweets along what you learned!

4. Let's make tea using a chasen (bamboo tea whisk)!

*Minimum participants should be 4 people.

If you'd like to participate in the tea ceremony, please send us an e-mail to let us know your name and the number of participants.

We are looking forward to receiving e-mails from you about participating in this tea ceremony!

Life in Japan