No, it’s not green paint, though you’d be forgiven for mistaking it for such. Koicha is thick green tea, consumed almost exclusively in tea ceremony. Koicha tends to be more expensive than normal green tea as it requires a very high grade leaf with a milder, sweeter taste. This is because the amount of tea used…
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Shinto Wedding
Witnessing a wedding procession through a Shinto shrine is a grand and colorful affair, a parade of beautiful traditional costumes and relatives in fine suits and kimono. Seeing such an event taking place in an ancient shrine would make you believe you are witnessing a custom dating back centuries, even a millennium. But you’d be…
茶道 Tea Ceremony
Tea ceremony is an art form that is still widely practiced in Japan. Besides learning from tea masters through instruction, many public schools still have after school clubs to teach tea ceremony to young women and men. The act of serving tea embodies the Japanese spirit of service and humility; the tools used in tea…
成人式 Seijin Shiki
The second Monday in January is Seijin Shiki, or Coming of Age Day in Japan. Men and women turning 20 years old during that year are celebrated as adults and given the rights of adulthood including voting and use of alcohol and tobacco. The young women especially love to dress up in fancy kimono…
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