Tanimura Tango is here in San Diego today from Japan teaching us how to carve our own chashaku (tea scoop) for matcha. My heart is full. #chado#urasenke
Sen Genshitsu, Japanese tea ceremony master, dies at 102
Sen, a native of the city of Kyoto who became grand master in 1964, received the Japanese Order of Culture in 1997 for his efforts to deepen and modernize the ceremony.
#Chado becomes more entertaining when you realize the major, centuries long, family drama at the core of why there are two major #ryu ....in front and behind an old gate of a estate in #Kyoto.