お抹茶は、緑茶や紅茶と同じ茶葉で出来ています。茶葉を丸ごと粉にしているので、栄養価が緑茶の20倍以上！
Matcya is made from the same tea leaves as Green Tea ,Red Tea ond Woolong Tea. Nutritutions of Macya is as 20 times as Green Tea!
●お茶会での大きなお楽しみ♪お抹茶と和菓子について。
About 抹茶【MATCYA】Green Powdered Tea and 和菓子【WA-GASHI】Wa Sweets.
●お抹茶は苦いというイメージがあるかもしれませんよね・・・？何倍も美味しく頂く、あるコツとは？！
Though you might think O-Matcya is bitter, there is s secret to enjoy it more tasty!
●お茶会での大きなお楽しみ！俳句のように季節を切り取る、美しい和菓子の魅力について。
It’s a big pleasure in a Tea Ceremony!About attractions about WAGASHI or Japanese-sweets, cutting the beauty of season 俳句【HAKIKU】;Japnese short poems.
●お茶会で出される和菓子の種類について。
Kind of wagashis served in Tea Ceremonies.
●おうちで美味しくお抹茶を点てる方法について。
How to make Macya by yourself at home.
１抹茶【MACYA】,Japanese Green Powdered Tea
Whole tea leaves are grind by stone mill into Powder and it contains rich nutritions.
This impressive yellow green is totally natural,not used artificial coloring.
This unique way of drinking is only in Japan in modern times.
▶︎History of 茶道【SADOU】
MATCYA and WAGASHI in Tea ceremony
Usually, Japanese sweets 和菓子【WAGASHI】is served before MATCYA in Tea ceremony.
MATCYA’s slightly bitterness matches WAGASHI very much.
After finishing to eat WAGASHI and your mouth would be full of sweetness,
the taste of MATCYA wash it off clearly and the feeling of refreshment is what you need to experience
in Japan. Of course, in the silent mood of Tea room hearing the sound of green breezing.
▶︎和菓子【WAGASHI】The delicious beauty.
▶︎Essay; How to enjoy the silentness of tea room;There are some points you can enjoy it through tea ceremony.
▶︎How to drink MATCYA in tea ceremony.
薄茶【USU-CYA】and 濃茶【KOI-CYA】
There are 2 ways of style in MACYA;薄茶【USU-CYA】Thin Tea and 濃茶【KOI-CYA】Thick Tea.
Usually,Wa-cafe;Japanese style cafe , 料亭【RYOUTEI】;traditional style restaurants and usual Tea ceremonies serve almost 薄茶【USU-CYA】,thin tea.
USU-CYA;Thin teaKOI-CYA;Thick tea
It looks thick enough though,this is thin tea!?
Yes.
You will encounter 濃茶【KOI-CYA】at only in 茶事【CHAY-JI】,very formal stye tea ceremony last about 4 hours. It is drunk by 3 to 5 person from one bowl and it looks like some ritual ceremony!
▶︎茶事【CYA-JI】If you want to try KOI-CYA, most proper way is to join CYAJI ,
the most formal style tea ceremony.
●お茶会にルールなんてあるの？正座してお茶を飲むだけじゃないの？と思われるかもしれませんが。 You might wonder “are there any rules in Tea Ceremony?Just sitting in 正座【SEIZA】style and drink a bowl of Matcya, isn’s it all”? ●例えば、サッカーをするとき「１チームの人数は１１人」「手を使わないで相手のゴールにボールを入れる」などのルールを知らなかったら、楽しめないですよね。お茶会にも、そんな重要なルールがいくつか存在します。 For example, you cannnot enjoy footboll game if you didn’t know rules like；”Put a ball into oposite goal without using hands”, or “numbers of player of one team is 11”, so on.There are such important rules like them in Tea Ceremony. ●これだけ知っていれば、お茶会がおおいに楽しめるようになりますよ！ If you know them, you can enjoy any tea ceremonies! ※ここでは、大体どんな流派のどんなお茶会にも共通するであろう、凝縮したルールのみをご紹介していきます（細かい部分は、その参加されたお茶会のやり方に従って下さいね）。 In this page, I’ll show you only very importantrules they might be allowed by any schools of Tea ceremony.Please follow more fine rules which you’ve perticipated.
1．お抹茶は、緑茶や烏龍茶、紅茶などと同じお茶の葉から出来ています。
2．茶葉をまるごと砕いて粉にしているので、その栄養は緑茶の10倍以上！
3．お抹茶は、海外でも健康飲料として熱い人気を集めています。
4．こうすれば、苦くない！お抹茶を一番美味しく頂く方法とは？
5．お抹茶は日本独特の飲み方で、一碗のお抹茶の背景には様々な伝統文化や奥深い思想の世界が広がっています。
極めれば、お抹茶で悟りが開けるかも！？
▶詳しくは、「日本の茶道の歴史」で1．お抹茶は、緑茶や烏龍茶、紅茶などと同じお茶の葉から出来ています。
抹茶は、他の緑茶やウーロン茶、紅茶と同じお茶の葉で出来ています。茶葉をまるごと砕いて粉にしているので、栄養は緑茶の20倍以上！The original tea leaves are the same for Matcha,Green Tea, Black Tea and Oolong Tea.
Macya contains super rich nutrition and arousal effect!
As Macya is powdered whole tea leaves, amount of Vitamin C and Catechin is about 20 times ofgreen tea’s.
その美しい黄緑色は、着色料ではなく天然のお茶の色です。
お抹茶は、ただの飲み物ではなくその背景には様々な奥深い伝統的文化や思想が広がっています。極めれば、悟りに近づくかも！？
How to make MA-CHA for beginners
You can easily make Macha green powdered tea in your home！
・抹茶【Macya】Green powdered Tea about 2g
茶碗【Chawan】A tea bowl /京焼【Kyo-pottery】
茶筅【Cha-sen】A bamboo tea whisk
茶杓【Cha-sen】A bamboo tea scoop
＜How to make delicious Ma-cha＞
Pour hot water into the tea bowl and throw it away, then warm it up.
Wipe it with a dry cloth.
1/Put 2 or 2.5 scoops of green powdered tea about 1.5g or 2g into the tea bowl.
2/Put about 100cc of 70-80 degree hot water into a tea bowl.
3/Beat it by a tea whisk until it whips and become like cappuccino.
Enjoy it with some sweets♪鯉爺さん
COLUMN;There are roughly 7 kinds of 茶事【CYAJI】 depends on Time and Situations
●正午【SHOUGO】Evening /●朝【ASA】Morning /●暁【AKATSUKI】Dusk(Early Morninig)
●夜咄【YO-BANASHI】Night tales /●飯後【HANGO】food time Chaji without meal /●跡見【ATOMI】/Chaji for the guests who could not come to the main Chaji using same utilities/●不時【FUJi】/ Regardless of Time/●初釜【HATSU-GAMA】the fisrt time of the year/●茶開き【CHA-BIRAKI】The first day of the year to use Tea for the year
Tea leaves at first has imported from ancient continent country called 唐【TOU】to
Japan in Nara period around
2.History of SADOU and main schools
Drinking-tea custom has come from the ancient country in Eurasian continent called 唐【TOU】, where around now China is, about 1400 yeas ago.
Very famous Tea master,千利休【SEN-no-RIKYU】 has established SADOU about 400 years ago and many 侍【SAMURAI】worriers had developed the culture.
It comes to around 100 years ago, large financial cliques family groups called 財閥【ZAIBATSU】 elite families inherited the culture until the end of W.W.2.
AfterW.W.2, SADOU became popular among women to improve their cultural education and good manners to be good wives before they marriage.
The tea ceremony is always a cutting-edge culture in Japan.
2.History of SADOU and main schools
Drinking-tea custom has come from the ancient country in Eurasian continent called 唐【TOU】, where around now China is, about 1400 yeas ago.
Very famous Tea master,千利休【SEN-no-RIKYU】 has established SADOU about 400 years ago and many 侍【SAMURAI】worriers had developed the culture.
It comes to around 100 years ago, large financial cliques family groups called 財閥【ZAIBATSU】 elite families inherited the culture until the end of W.W.2.
AfterW.W.2, SADOU became popular among women to improve their cultural education and good manners to be good wives before they marriage.
The tea ceremony is always a cutting-edge culture in Japan.
栄西【EISAI】
喫茶養生記
実朝【SANETOMO】
as a hangover medicine.
明恵上人
At the first time, tea leaves like dumplings were called 団茶【DAN-CYA】.
Samurai worriers 闘茶【TOUCYA】
村田珠光【MURATA-JYUKOU】
武野紹鴎【TAKENO- JYOUOU】
SADO was established by 千利休【Sen-no- Rikyu】 in about 400 years ago.
戦国武将 Samurai worriers in the period of who will hold the hegemony domestic war to
One of the 豊臣秀吉 is famous for his Golden-made tea room.
Rikyu forced cut his self 切腹【SEPPUKU】
南蛮物、唐物、高麗物
Rikyu valued 侘び寂び【WABI-SABI】
Nowadays, there are about 10 schools are in
japan.
・Recently there are about 10 major schools.
・石州流【SEKISYU-RYU】is SAMURAI way !
▶︎市民程茶席by裏千家男子の会; Serving Tea seats of Citizens
If you came to Niigata on first Monday of the month, you are lucky to encounter the chance of Serving by URASENKE-DANSHI-NO -KAI；The meeting of 裏千家【URASRNKE】’s male.
▶︎What’s 裏千家【URA-SENKE】? literally means “back SEN family”
千利休【SEN-NO RIKYUU】is the most famous tea masteer in SENGOKU period he established THE WAY OF TEA.After his death, two branches have occurd , back URA-SENKE and front OMOTE-SENKE.The reason of those names are from the place The house was, URA was in the back of RIKYU’s house and OMOTE was in front of 利休’s house.
独特の喫茶文化と共に発展
It was drink as medicine, even now counts
１puku, 2 fuku…
same way as we count medicine.
There is a record remains that 2nd Shogun Senetomo drunk as a medicine of hungover.
Drinking the next morning of a hangover is also recommended！
To increase concentration, to relax, for beauty and health · · ·
Please have a cup of Macya green powdered tea per day ♪
COLUMN;
3 ways to get Macya powdered tea much more tasty!
Temperature
Degree of whipping
Very important! → WHAT to drink with?
