Ultimately, paying attention to tea offers travelers a subtle look into Japanese culture. Through a simple cup, Matsuda says, ...

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In Japan's ancient capital, Kyoto, three groups teaching the traditional tea ceremony style founded by the 16th century ...

TOKYO (AP) — Clad in an elegant kimono of pale green, tea ceremony instructor Keiko Kaneko uses a tiny wooden spoon to place a speck of matcha into a porcelain bowl. She froths up the special powdered ...

(The Conversation) — Social media has turned traditional Japanese matcha into a commercial trend, though its roots lie in Zen Buddhism. A scholar of premodern Japanese literature unpacks that history.

Aug. 14 (UPI) --A grand master of Ursanke, a Japanese tea ceremony school, Sen Genshitsu died on Thursday. He was 102 years old. Genshitsu became the grand master in 1964 and received the Japanese ...

Harmony, respect, purity and tranquility may not be what one experiences waiting at a pop-up stand or in a drive thru at Starbucks for a banana caramel matcha latte, but those are the key goals of ...

The world is crazy; we all feel it. Sometimes a break is in order. Why not take a step back, however briefly, and join millions of others who throughout the centuries have enjoyed a cup of matcha tea.