Tea Gong Academy
日本語

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Preparing the Leaf

In Tea Gong the leaf is viewed through four things — savour, aroma, texture and qi — taking the plant as a whole. What to have ready before you start.

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.

Here we look at the leaf used in Tea Gong: what it is like, and what it is for.

In Tea Gong we regard the leaf through savour, aroma, texture and qi, taking in its wholeness as a plant.

Change the type or the region and the balance of savour, aroma, texture and qi changes with it. Try several leaves, enjoy the differences, and find the one that agrees with your own senses.