Hello, this is the Michinoku Herb Research Institute!You might have the image that the tea ceremony was a pastime for Sengoku ...

Reading "Tea and Zen" (by Kokan Ito, Shunjusha Publishing), various questions are flying through my head. There are too many ...

(Professor Webb is both an ordained Obaku Zen priest and professor emeritus of Japanese culture at Pepperdine University, where he served as director of the Institute for the Study of Asian Cultures.

Immerse yourself in a Japanese tea ceremony while wearing a kimono at Tokujuji, a 300-year-old Zen Buddhist temple on Itsukushima, an island near Hiroshima. Though the style of drinking powdered green ...

I’ve been writing about Japan in the 16th and 17th centuries, and before moving on I want to tell the poignant story of the warlord and the tea master. In this story the warlord is Toyotomi Hideyoshi ...

(The Conversation) — One of Japan’s most recognizable cultural practices – the Japanese tea ceremony, known as chanoyu, or chadō – is being reshaped by tourism, wellness culture and social media.