Tea ceremony

Have you ever seen Japanese tea ceremony on your own eyes? No? I was so lucky to see it! 
During a month festival on theme “Water” in our town there was on program lecture concerning Water in Japanese mythology and after that demonstration of tea ceremony. I was looking forward to that as some small kid because I only watched this in animes or in videos on youtube. So when I heard about it I had to run to buy tickets for this!

Preparation for the tea ceremony

At first I was with my collegue from work to see the lecture. It was really interesting. The man who spoke about Japanese people and their perception of water. The man wasn´t Japanese but he lived there, studied and then he went throught way of taoism. So he was something as monk. He had also geta (traditional shoes) - it was the first time I´ve seen them in person. So he also spoke about clothing, geta etc. Really interesting...

Chashaku (bamboo spoon), tea Matcha (green powder), Chasen (bamboo whisk)

After his lecture we should moved to the next room where was everything for tea ceremony prepared. A lot of people were almost there and I thought that I had to sit down somewhere behind :( But my another two collegues held place in the first row for me! I was sooo lucky :)

At first “the monk” explained the meaning of the tea ceremony etc. And then the president of school Urasenke showed with his Japanese wife playing guest the ceremony. This took my breath out. It was so beautiful that I only wished - if I could learn aslo something so beautiful.

Tea ceremony

They both spoke about tea, tea schools, about how they were learning in Japan and so on.

Meanwhile we got also tea Matcha and some sweet beans candy. It was really yummy :)

I think that all Japanese women (doesn´t depend on age) are so cute and they all have so different behavior in compare to us.

It was really great experience! If you have some chance to see it somewhere, don´t hesitate and go!

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