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Swedish expat's 23-year tea-drinking life: Japanese tea evangelist discovers the perfect cup

A Swedish man born in Malmö in 1985 became fascinated with Japanese tea after studying Meiji-era Japan in high school and seeing photographs of tea rooms and vessels. His first attempt to brew tea failed—he used boiling water and found it bitter and unpalatable—but persistence led to a transformative moment when cooler water revealed what he describes as 'a forest in a cup,' changing his life and drawing him to Japan.