This year Issoan celebrated Hatsugama in a hybrid as still some people cannot come to the tea room, and some people attended from out of town.
The first seki I laid sumi and served tenshin meal.
Then a break and our zoom guests joined us for sweets and tea. Thank you all …
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Happy New Year from Issoan Tea. This morning we met for the 5th annual poetry gathering at Issoan. It is always a popular event as we visit, talk, share incense, potluck food, and sweets and tea over the course of 4 hours as we compose a poem for the year. This year we had 8 …
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Here we are once again at the turn of the year. I like to mark the winter solstice and the return of the light. The days from now on will be getting longer, and in six months we will be sitting in the sun on the longest day of the year. Seasons turn around year …
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Thank you for the great response to the previous post on what Chado has taught me. I would like to extend my gratitude to those who read these posts and never comment, but I find out later they have been following for a very long time.
If you would like to share things Chado has …
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