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The Dawn of Japanese Tea Culture

How tea first came to Japan, and how the Zen thought standing behind it took shape.

The lessons are narrated in Japanese.

How to turn on English subtitles

Start the video and click the CC button to switch captions on.
Open Settings (the gear icon) → Subtitles/CC → Auto-translate.
Choose English.

These are machine-translated from the Japanese captions, so expect some roughness — particularly around tea terminology. The text on this page is a proper translation, so read the two together.

Let us look at where Japanese tea culture began, and at how the Zen thought behind it came into being.