Japanese Tea
The Complete Guide to 200 Teas, Growing Regions & Tea Culture
- AuthorAki Wakamatsu
- PublisherTakikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC
- CategoryJapan Guides & Culture
- ISBN1990000145629
- FormatEPUB ebook
About this book
Matcha brought the world to Japanese tea — but matcha is one leaf in a forest.
Japanese Tea is the first English guide to walk the whole forest in one volume: 200 entries in eight parts, each in one traveller's format — where it belongs, how it is made, its signature style, where to go to meet it, and how it is actually brewed and drunk at the table. Thirty-five classic sencha from Uji to Kawane; shaded gyokuro, kabusecha and tencha; twenty-five matcha and tea-ceremony entries; the everyday world of hojicha, bancha and genmaicha; forty single-origin districts; rare survivals such as goishicha and awabancha; Japanese black tea (wakoucha), oolong and new styles; and the culture around the cup — gardens, kilns, sweets and the people who pick and hand-roll.
Beginner books teach a dozen teas well. This book's wager is breadth you can travel with: read it by style to learn a family, or by prefecture (the index is organised by prefecture) to turn any trip to Japan into a tea route. No per-shop hours or prices are asserted — shops change them; the town and the tradition do not. No health effects are claimed for any tea.
Written and created in Japan by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu. Published by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC, a Japanese publisher in Hokkaido, Japan. Authentic Japanese content, carefully made in Japan — not mass-produced.
