I've never personally seen a real Japanese tea ceremony before, so I couldn't pass up the chance to see it live at Katsucon. The Comiku Girls hosted the event, and they are 10 year veterans of the ...

Immerse yourself in a Japanese tea ceremony while wearing a kimono at Tokujuji, a 300-year-old Zen Buddhist temple on Itsukushima, an island near Hiroshima. Though the style of drinking powdered green ...

Serene, slow-paced and oddly affecting. Such is Every Day A Good Day, the latest work by Japanese director Tatsushi Ohmori, a drama that revolves around the meticulously detailed and delicate Japanese ...

For over 30 years, Midori Mochizuki has invited people to experience matcha in a more intentional way, with a traditional version of the practice that is more than 500 years old. It is a way of life ...

In Japan, tea ceremony (cha-dou) is revered as a way to a gain deeper insights into life and philosophy. Traditional Japanese tea ceremony practitioners put in long hours to master the intricacies and ...

The Zen of Proposal Writing: An Expert’s Stress-Free Path to Winning Proposals. By Kitta Reeds (Three Rivers Press, 223 pages, $13). Writing a proposal for a government contract and the Japanese tea ...

There is more to Zen than the Japanese tea ceremony. There is no more to Zen than the Japanese tea ceremony. All there is? Zen is like that... Apparently full of impossible contradictions! It is hard ...

A Japanese World War II-era sailor this morning performed the first sacred Japanese tea ceremony aboard the USS Arizona Memorial, a national monument and the symbol of Japanese aggression that ...

Out in East Portland, in a bright-purple house, there is a temple of tea. The priest of this temple is Master Po, né Paul Rosenberg, who's been holding tea service here, behind the Leach Botanical ...