読みもの
Journal
Notes from the makers we work with, and a few things we have learned about tea, paper and clay along the way.
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Washi: the paper that lasts a thousand years
Why a sheet formed by hand in cold water in Mino will still be legible long after most paper has crumbled.
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How to make matcha at home, without the ceremony
A bowl, a whisk, water at 70 degrees and two minutes. Everything else is optional.
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A morning at the Hasami kilns
Four hundred years of making porcelain for everyone else, and a town still arranged around its chimneys.