Mugicha, the Flavor of Summer in Japan - Yunomi.life

Mugicha, the Flavor of Summer in Japan

Moé  Kishida
Hello, it's summer time!  I hope you are all enjoying the longer days and more light, enjoying the flowers and their pollinators around this time o...
Mugicha, the Flavor of Summer in Japan - Yunomi.life

Mugicha, the Flavor of Summer in Japan

Moé  Kishida
Hello, it's summer time!  I hope you are all enjoying the longer days and more light, enjoying the flowers and their pollinators around this time o...
Chanoyu, nation building and femininity - Yunomi.life

Chanoyu, nation building and femininity

Moé  Kishida

In this article, tea aficionado Jim Burridge offers commentary on two books that examine who practiced tea ceremony, what it has meant and what social and cultural roles it has played over the centuries. They are titled: Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice by Kristin Surak, and Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan by Rebecca Corbett.

 

 

What is shincha and why is it so special? - Yunomi.life

What is shincha and why is it so special?

Moé  Kishida
With the welcoming of spring, we are hearing more and more exciting news of shincha as tea farmers complete their first spring harvest, it is reall...
Color Your Life with Sakura Bark Ware (Kabazaiku) - Yunomi.life

Color Your Life with Sakura Bark Ware (Kabazaiku)

Sachiko Murata
Sakura (Cherry blossoms) is in full bloom in my place . 桜前線(Sakura zensen)- the sakura front is going up to the northern part of Japan, and will bl...
Happy spring, shincha season is around the corner! - Yunomi.life

Happy spring, shincha season is around the corner!

Moé  Kishida
Happy (belated) spring equinox! Have you been enjoying any new smells or new plant growth, more green and sunshine, flowers reaching towards the l...
Tea History Shines into the Future - Yunomi.life

Tea History Shines into the Future

Moé  Kishida
This blog post was written by guest Jimmy Burridge, who also wrote an earlier piece on tea and climate change. While his plant research has more to...
Wintering: Chagara Art - Yunomi.life

Wintering: Chagara Art

Moé  Kishida
Greetings!  How has the year 2021 started off for you? I was listening to a podcast touching on the concept of "wintering" the other day and also ...
New Year, First Tea - Yunomi.life

New Year, First Tea

Moé  Kishida
A Very Happy New Year to you all!  明けましておめでとうございます!   Despite the challenges associated with traveling and other difficulties during these strang...
Selecting Your Very First Japanese Teas - Yunomi.life

Selecting Your Very First Japanese Teas

Moé  Kishida
First of all, a very warm youkoso (welcome) to you!   At Yunomi, we have the largest selection of Japanese teas and this can be a wonderful delight...
Where to experience the Japanese Tea Ceremony in Tokyo - Yunomi.life

Where to experience the Japanese Tea Ceremony in Tokyo

Ian Chun
The best places in Tokyo to experience matcha in the setting of Chanoyu, the Japanese tea ceremony.
What every matcha lover should know about chanoyu, the Japanese tea ceremony - Yunomi.life

What every matcha lover should know about chanoyu, the Japanese tea ceremony

Ian Chun
The matcha craze in the West borrows much of its culture from the role of matcha in chanoyu, the Japanese tea ceremony. Certified Japanese tea instructor and licensed instructor of the Enshu School of Chanoyu
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura - Yunomi.life

The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura

Ian Chun
Introduction by Yunomi Tea Merchant, Ian Chun Image credit: kikuo / PIXTA This long essay by Japanese scholar Kakuzo Okakura was written in E...
The Chatsumi Song, celebrating the spring flush of tea leaves (video) - Yunomi.life

The Chatsumi Song, celebrating the spring flush of tea leaves (video)

Yunomi Staff
A traditional Japanese folk song, now often sung by little children, celebrating the coming of the spring flush. English subtitles on this video. V...

How to choose Japanese tea

By partnering with a hundred plus artisanal Japanese tea farms and factories, we offer hundreds of green teas, and dozens of matcha, black tea, oolong tea, etc. Where do you start?

We recomend starting with Sampler Sets!