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WACHA to Host Matcha Tasting Experience with Hanasennin Raku Tea Bowls at Japan Tea Expo 2026
WACHA will conduct eight seminars at Japan Tea Expo 2026 (October 24–25, Tokyo) comparing the same matcha whisked in a standard tea bowl and a raku bowl handmade by Hanasennin, a ceramic artist (1917–1998) and grandfather of WACHA founder Kayo Kato. Participants will assess differences in mouthfeel, temperature, aroma, and tactile sensation. The seminars are fully booked; additional sessions may open if cancellations occur. Hanasennin developed a distinctive hand-forming tech…
戦火を越え、手のひらから生まれた一碗。WACHA、JAPAN TEA EXPO 2026で花仙人の楽茶碗による抹茶飲み比べ体験を開催
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“Tea brings out the vessel; the vessel reveals the taste of tea. Only when held and used by human hands do both tea and vessel return to life in our modern lives.”
茶が器を生かし、器が茶の味わいを引き出す。ひとの手で実際に使われてこそ、茶も茶器も、現代の暮らしの中で再び息づき始めます。
“The more I engaged with them, the clearer it became that raku bowls are not self-contained artworks but part of a vast ecosystem of Japanese culture—existing only through the interplay of tea, whisk, confection, the hand that whisks, and the hand that drinks.”
向き合うほど、楽茶碗は単独で完結する美術品ではなく、茶、茶筅、菓子、点てる人、飲む人とともに成り立つ、日本文化の大きな生態系の一部なのだと気づきました。
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