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Open a bag of green tea that has been sitting on the counter for three months, exposed to light, and the first thing ...
Fill a kettle in Tokyo and another in London. Same tea, same temperature, same steep time. The first cup opens clean ...
The first Shincha of the year reaches Japanese markets in late March, picked in Kagoshima while tea farms in Shizuoka...
The cup is pale and luminous — a green so clear it almost looks like spring water until the light catches it. Then th...
When the first-flush tea season begins in Japan each spring, it starts in Kagoshima. The warm southern climate of Kyu...
A Buddhist monk who crossed the sea to China twice, Eisai (1141–1215) returned home carrying something that would res...
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