Harmony, respect, purity and tranquility may not be what one experiences waiting at a pop-up stand or in a drive thru at ...

The Japanese Cultural Center, Tea House & Gardens of Saginaw will feature traditional performances, crafts, and tea ...

Minoru Handa, the third-generation chief of suburban tea store Tokyo Handa-en, which sells green and brown tea as well as ...

In Quanzhou, southeast China's Fujian province, planting and drinking tea is a popular tradition with many. The tea ceremony is an important part in drinking tea, also called the Kung Fu Tea Ceremony.

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 ...

The tea ceremony is said to be the essence of Japanese aesthetics -- architecture, ceramics, flower arranging, incense, calligraphy, painting, gardening -- packaged in a formalized ritual that ...

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 — ...

The William and Mary Confucius Institute sponsors a unique cross-cultural opportunity in Williamsburg.