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Japanese Tea Ceremony
Now the Japanese are even more fanatical about tea than the Chinese. They have an incredibly intricate Tea Ceromony developed around the practice of tea drinking. This ceremony is often performed to guests and lasts upto 4 hours. It’s influenced by Zen Buddhism and in Japanese is known as Cha No Yu. Traditionally a practitioner would dedicate their entire lives to the perfecting the tea ceromony and although this is still the case in modern Japan it is often performed at night classes for the busy workers of Japans industrial cities.
This reminds me of a book which went into some detail about the Japanese tea ceremony called Shogun. Its fiction but is EPIC fiction at its finest. An incredible historical saga which includes everything you could possibly want from a story. Including the descriptions of the Cha No Yu!!
What also sets this book apart from the rest is the fact that although fiction it accurately portrays many of the broad historical events and even some details. Too such an extent that Toranaga (one of the main characters) is based on a feudal lord known as Tokugawa. The similarities in their stories is uncanny although areas of romance and personal relationships are clearly artistic license its an incredible opening into a world that is so foreign to our own. Shogun is well worth a look.
Futher Information: Japanese Tea Ceremony
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