Tea Gong Academy

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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
  1. Start the video and click the CC button to switch captions on.
  2. Open Settings (the gear icon) → Subtitles/CCAuto-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.

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.