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The students from Issoan Tea put on their summer chakai last weekend. I am going to post photos and kaiki. It was a playful twist to the theme.
Here is a photo of the invitation: “Stretches for light years, Satellites transmitting A mass of pitch black.” by James, published by NASA’s Going to Mars Campaign …
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Today I had the lucky opportunity of hosting a chakai for people that I had never met. However these two people had traveled many thousands of miles from North and East of here to be my guests. They were graduates of the Midorikai program in Kyoto and attended about 5 years before I had gone …
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As my classes are preparing to host a chakai this summer, I thought that I would talk a little about tea gatherings.
Chakai are rather informal tea gatherings. Sweets and usucha are usually served, and usually no meal is served at a chakai. I have been to chakai in Japan where there were hundreds of …
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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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