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Tea Making in the Age of Information
How the knowledge and instinct held in a craftsman’s hands were converted into theory as tea making industrialised in the modern era.
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.
In the modern era, tea making followed the current of industrialisation and of information. The knowledge and the feel that lived in a craftsman’s hands were turned into data, and then into theory.