A digital garden about tea, its culture and the craftsmanship behind it.
Genealogy ♀: Yutakamidori ゆたかみどり ♂: 茶本F1NN8 History Okuyutaka is a sencha cultivar result of crossing Yutakamidori ゆたかみどり as the flower parent and 茶本F1NN8 as the pollen parent performed in 1983. It was selected from the seedlings of that crossing at the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Tokai Kinki Agricultural Experiment Station
Welcome to the July round-up newsletter. A monthly letter about everything that has happened inside and outside the tea nursery. Summer harvest and black tea magic This month we have been focusing solely on the summer harvest and in particular on black tea production. I had never processed black tea
Welcome to the June round-up newsletter. A monthly letter about everything that has happened inside and outside the tea nursery.
Koan 狐菴 offers a unique pairing experience next to the beautiful Daitokuji temple complex in Kyoto. The space blends wagashi with tea, coffee, sake and other beverages like gin. The pairing changes regularly, so check their Instagram account @kiss.a.co before dropping by. As a tea and coffee drinker
Saeakari was crossbred in 1989 by the National Agriculture and Food Research Organization, NARO. The flower component was Z1, a high-yielding, high-resistant cultivar, and Saemidori.
