Tea Gong Academy
日本語

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Tea as an Everyday Affair

How the tea culture of the capital, brought to completion by Rikyū and his contemporaries, spread across the country from the Edo period and settled into ordinary life.

The lessons are narrated in Japanese.

How to turn on English subtitles
  1. Start the video and click the CC button to switch captions on.
  2. Open Settings (the gear icon) → Subtitles/CC → Auto-translate.
  3. 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.

The tea culture of the capital, which reached its completed form in the hands of Rikyū and his contemporaries, spread gradually across the whole country from the Edo period onward.