Japan Tea Word Search

About this book

> Written and produced in Japan by a Japanese author — Aki Wakamatsu, published by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC. This is not a mass-produced puzzle book: the 600-word pool was researched and written in Japan, field by field, bowl by bowl. > > 300 LARGE-PRINT PUZZLES. 600 WORDS. EVERY LEAF, BOWL AND WHISK OF JAPANESE TEA. > > Most word-search books give you 100 puzzles about anything. This one gives you 300 — and every single word belongs to the tea of Japan. > > Travel the tea country one puzzle at a time: green teas by leaf and making, from pan-fired kamairicha to stem tea and dust tea; shading cloths and steaming lines; roasted, fermented and ice-brewed teas; matcha thick and thin, with its caddies, bowls and bamboo whisks; forty cultivars by name, from Yabukita to Benifuki; the tea origins of Uji, Shizuoka, Yame and Sayama; picking seasons and rolling rooms; the three Sen schools and Rikyu's four principles; Raku bowls and Mino glazes; kettles, braziers and the sound of boiling water; the tea room and its garden path; the sweets served beside the bowl, season by season; water temperatures and teapots; tea masters, auctions and tasting words; cafe lattes, bottled teas and sparkling new waves; tea festivals, chazuke suppers, poems and proverbs — in big, comfortable large-print 15×15 grids. > > Learn while you play: every hidden word comes with a one-line note — which valley grows it, which kiln fires it, why the whisk has a hundred prongs. By Puzzle 300 you will read Japanese tea like a local. The 600-word pool was built for this book: not one grid word is recycled from the earlier volumes of this series — where those books used general words, this one uses cultivars, field names, utensil parts and the working words of the tea room. > > Made to be solved: all 300 puzzles are computer-verified in two independent ways, so every hidden word appears exactly once — no printing mistakes, no impossible grids. Full highlighted solutions are printed at the back. > > For paper and for pen: solve the paperback with a pencil, or open the Kindle Scribe edition and circle words right on the page. > > The perfect gift for tea lovers, matcha fans, gardeners, and anyone planning a trip to Japan's tea country. > > Inside: 300 puzzles · 30 tea themes · 600 words with notes · 3,000 word placements · verified unique solutions · full answer key