At the heart of the Denver Botanic Gardens' Shofu-en Japanese Garden is a tea house built in Japan, shipped to Colorado and reassembled here. As the Shofu-en garden turns 40 (shofu-en means "garden of ...
Tea Master Yoshitsugu Nagano teaches the Samurai Tea Ceremony Class, where students learn about the tradition, history, and formalities of a Japanese tea ceremony. The Buke (samurai) Tea Ceremony, or ...
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 ...
Spared from flying a suicide mission in World War II, he became a grandmaster of Japan’s venerable tea ceremony and used his stature to speak out against all wars. By Martin Fackler Reporting from ...