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About Issoan Tea School
Issoan means "One Grass Hut" and was named by Genki Takabayashi Roshi. Its name
exemplifies the impermanence of the wabi tea aesthetic as well as the
moveable nature of structure of the tea room itself. Issoan Tea School is a place of study for chanoyu. Marjorie "Soya"
Yap teaches classes from beginning through advanced in the procedures for
making tea as well as aspects of Japanese culture such as sweet making,
kimono dressing, incense ceremony, haiku, and more. More important, she
teaches how to incorporate chanoyu values and aesthetics into our modern, everyday life.
About Marjorie Yap, Instructor
Marjorie Yap has been a student of Tea since 1984. She spent an intensive
year studying chanoyu in Kyoto, Japan, at the Urasenke Chanoyu Institute.
Marjorie received her Chamei (tea name) "Soya" and teaching
credentials from Japan in 2004.
She has assisted teaching the art history class, Chado and Japanese
Aesthetics at University of Washington. She also has guest lectured at
Portland Community College on Tea Ceramics and at Sarah Lawrence College on
The Tea Ceremony and Theatre Arts. See my other site
SweetPersimmon.com. I have zazen meditation seats, incense and koh
do utensils,
specialty tea, teaware, books, photos and more.
Email me about tea ceremony utensils. This week on the
SweetPersimmon blog:
Tea and music, Kuwa ko-joku for Boy's day and Just put the flowers in
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