The popularity of matcha has skyrocketed, and although it was initially met with skepticism in the West, it has since pushed ...

TOKYO (AP) — Clad in an elegant kimono of pale green, tea ceremony instructor Keiko Kaneko uses a tiny wooden spoon to place a speck of matcha into a porcelain bowl. She froths up the special powdered ...

Harmony, respect, purity and tranquility may not be what one experiences waiting at a pop-up stand or in a drive thru at Starbucks for a banana caramel matcha latte, but those are the key goals of ...

TOKYO (AP) — Clad in an elegant kimono of pale green, tea ceremony instructor Keiko Kaneko uses a tiny wooden spoon to place a speck of matcha into a porcelain bowl. She froths up the special powdered ...

See Senior Director of TV Programming Meredith Speight’s recommendations from this month’s KQED 9, PLUS and Passport schedules. Videos from KQED Live Watch recordings of recent KQED Live events. Donor ...

The Historical Journal, Vol. 59, No. 4 (DECEMBER 2016), pp. 927-945 (19 pages) This article explores the relationships between ritual, material culture, and political authority in early modern Japan ...

Bowdoin’s Morita-Sensei celebrates Japanese culture by supplementing her students’ learning of the Japanese language with the complex yet rewarding art of sadō, the Japanese tea ceremony. Studying a ...

In the U.S., Tea Party politics refers to a certain strain of Republican conservatism. But in Japan, tea politics are of an altogether different sort: The ritual drinking of this ancient beverage — ...