Japanese Tea History

The Edo period (1603–1868) is when tea became Japanese in the fullest sense — no longer a practice of monks and samur...

Japanese tea did not begin with Matcha, and it did not become permanent the first time it arrived. In 815, the monk E...

In 1859, Yokohama Port opened to foreign trade. Within a decade, green tea had become one of Japan's largest export c...

The Muromachi period (1336–1573) and the Azuchi-Momoyama period that followed were the centuries in which Japanese te...

At Far East Tea Company, tracing the history of Japanese tea always brings us back to this moment: in 1191, Eisai ret...

Takeno Joo (c.1502-1555) stands at the center of the wabi-cha lineage: the figure who received the aesthetic directio...