The Fall Beginners Class: Introduction to Chado The Japanese Tea Ceremony is now forming.
Students will learn the etiquette of how to be a guest at a tea ceremony, the basic order of the tea ceremony and how to whisk green powdered ceremonial tea. Students will also participate in Japanese tea ceremonies. An overview of …
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Tim McRobert produced a half hour documentary about Chado: The Way of Tea in Oregon. It will be broadcast on Oregon Public Broadcasting cable this Sunday. It was shot at the Portland Japanese Garden and various tea rooms around the Portland area.
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Issoan Tea School is one of the groups featured in the film.You …
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This summer we have been fortunate to be able to burn charcoal and do sumidemae. We can’t make tea if the charcoal doesn’t boil the water. For some reason, the water boiled with charcoal tastes better, sounds better and the steam is more consistently fluffy and pretty.
Of course, it all begins with the haigata …
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Issoan Tea School will be presenting Chado, the Way of Tea at the Portland Japanese Garden this Saturday, July 21st at 1 and 2 pm.
Please join us for a presentation of the Tea Ceremony at Kashintei, the “Flower heart arbor” tea house at the Portland Japanese Garden. The presentation is free with admission to …
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A wonderful day of tea Saturday at the Issoan Tea School. Students celebrated the Star Festival with a chakai put on the advanced class who invited the new students who had never attended a chakai before.
We went through the planning process from choosing a theme, utensils, poetic names, hand made invitations to making sweets.
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