茶道【SADOU】is the most recommended first experiences because it contains a lot of Japanese culture elements like an exhibition!!
It usually contains below and you can experience all of them if you joined 茶会【CHA-KAI】or 茶事【CHA-JI】at once；
＜1.抹茶【matcya】/2.和菓子【wagashi（Japanese sweets）】/3.着物【kimono】/4.陶器【touki（pottery）】(抹茶茶碗【matcha tea bowls】)/5.漆器【shikki・urushi /JAPAN lacquer ware)】/6.鋳物【imono（ironware）】（釜【kama（kettle）】）/6.竹細工【bamboo tools）】茶筅【chasen（bamboo whisk）・茶杓【chashaku（tea scoop）】/7.掛け軸【kakejiku（hanging scroll)】/8.香【kou（insence）】/9.花【hana（flowers）】/10.扇子【sensu（paper fan）】/11.懐石料理【kaiseki-ryouri（kaiseki cuisine）】12.和風建築【wafuu（Japanese style）-architecture）】/13.庭【(garden） 】/ 14.禅【ZEN Buddhism】/ 15.所作【Shosa（Bahavior）】/16. おもてなし【omotenashi（Welcome-maind)】 , so on.＞
Have you ever ate MATCHA Ice Cream, MATCHA Chocolate
or MATCHA latte☕?
Then, how about a bowl of 抹茶【MATCYA(Green Powdered Tea)】in 抹茶茶碗【MATCHA-C(Z)HAWAN（Tea Bowl for Matcha）】?
If you felt it’s not just a beverage, but there would be a world which is something profound on the back of one tea bowl , that feeling might be true♪
In Japan, many things become 道【MICHI/DOU（WAY or ROAD)】which should be mastered . Like 書道【SHO-DOU】The Way of Calligraphy, 剣道【KENDOU】The Way of Sword, 合気道【AIKI-DOU】, 空手道【KARATE-DOU】, 香道【KOUDOU】The Way of Incense, 華道【KADOU】The way of flower …and 茶道【SADOU】,”The Way of Tea”.
CONTENTS:
▶1.ABOUT 抹茶【MATCHA】AS A DRINK: FEATURES AND NUTRITION
▶2.HISTORY OF SADOU: THE MOST FAMOUS TEA MASTER 千利休【SEN NO RIKYUU】AND WHAT’S 侘び寂び【WABI-SABI】?
▶3.INFRUENCES OF 禅【ZEN-BUDDISM】IN TEA CEREMONIES.ZEN words are on hanging scrolls and it is a theme of the tea ceremony.
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WHAT’S 道【DOU or MICHI】?
The Way Of Tea, The way of calligraphy…When Japanese say 道【DOU】,
it means the way to enlightenment.
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What’s 型【KATA】？
When Japanese people learning ,they emphasize 型【KATA】pre-formatted
forms or patterns that past people completed .
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WHAT’S 侘び寂び【WABI-SABI】?
One of important aesthetic senses of 茶道【SADOU】 told by a famous tea master
千利休【SEN NO RIKYU】, finding beauty into not gorgeous, rusted things.
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Three ways to enjoy silence in a tea ceremony;
1-In authentic tea ceremonies,only the host and the main guest are allowed to talk.
2-Three ways sending message without words.
3-Sounds of water boiled in iron kettle is called 松風の音【SYOUFUU no OTO】;
the sound of the breeze in the pine tree, and what you can feel when it stops…?
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禅語【ZEN-GO】short sentences from ZEN-sect Buddhism are hanged over at
床の間【TOKONOMA】as a theme of the tea ceremony.
All other utensils used in the tea ceremony are selected followed by
the meaning of the ZEN-GO.
One bowl of 抹茶【MACYA】for a guest is prepared and served in stipulated traditional movement long from 4oo years ago, politely and carefully, by the tea master, with the mind of OMOTENASHI; Japanese hospitality.