Tea Gong Academy
日本語

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Tea and Zen, One Taste

The tea ceremony and Japanese tea culture as they were formed from the Kamakura period onward: how they are put together, and what lies at their heart.

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 ceremony, and with it Japanese tea culture, took shape from the Kamakura period onward. Let us look at how it is built and at what lies at its centre.