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Product Info
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\nIngredients: Black tea
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\nCultivar: Benifuuki
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\nHarvest: May
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\nRegion: Yame, Fukuoka
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A single cultivar (benifuuki) black tea with light, sweet, floral notes of citrus and a hint of cinnamon. Enjoy straight, or steep stronger for making milk tea.
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Winner of the 2022 Nihoncha Awards Platinum Medal! This award is held by the Nihoncha (\"Japanese tea\") Instructor's Association. Unlike regional and national tea competitions held throughout Japan featuring the unrefined tea leaves that come from farmers, the Nihoncha Awards accepts entries from farms, factories and sellers that are commercial products, refined teas meant for drinking by consumers. Awards are given out in August judged by a select panel of experts while they over winners in several categories are chosen after tea tastings are held for the general public (several hundred tasters) in December—a people’s choice type of award.
Remember, these are just guidelines (and may differ on our label). You can and should adjust according to your preference. More tea / less water / longer time for a stronger flavor; lower temperature for more sweetness / hotter temperature for more bitterness.
Perhaps you have heard of bancha but what exactly is a sannen bancha? Taking spring bancha, first flush tea leaves harvested after they have grown large (late flushing spring leaves), Uejima-san processes them into dry leaf, then puts them into storage for at least 3 years. After pulling the leaves out of storage, they are then roasted. A tea that is considered to be friendly for all ages because; in comparison to sencha, it has less caffeine and tannins, which can be stimulating for some. A tea that can be enjoyed hot or cold, and don't forget to appreciate that it was sleeping (i.e., in storage) for 3 years!!
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* Generally, Japanese tea (i.e., sencha) is made from harvesting, steaming and processing the new buds of tea bushes. These types of teas are considered best when drunk fresh. However, sannenbancha is a little different in that it comes from bushes that have been uncut for three years or from stems and leaves that have matured for three years.
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Product Info
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\nIngredients: Green tea
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\nNet weight: 100g bag
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\nCultivar: ---
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\nHarvest: Spring
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\nRegion: Wazuka Village, Kyoto Prefecture
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About Tea Farmer: Noriyasu Uejima
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Noriyasu Uejima is a tea master. In the 90+ year old tea tasting competition held in Kyoto, he is the only winner to ever achieve a perfect score. Cultivating and processing some of Kyoto's finest teas, the Ritz Carlton Hotel of Kyoto features his teas in their line up for guests. He is the 5th generation master farmer carrying on a tradition that dates back to the mid-19th century when his ancestor started the Uejima family as a branch family of an even older main family. The farm also operates the Wazuka Village's Wazuka Cha Cafe.
Perhaps you have heard of bancha but what exactly is a sannen bancha? Taking spring bancha, first flush tea leaves harvested after they have grown large (late flushing spring leaves), Uejima-san processes them into dry leaf, then puts them into storage for at least 3 years. After pulling the leaves out of storage, they are then roasted. A tea that is considered to be friendly for all ages because; in comparison to sencha, it has less caffeine and tannins, which can be stimulating for some. A tea that can be enjoyed hot or cold, and don't forget to appreciate that it was sleeping (i.e., in storage) for 3 years!!
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* Generally, Japanese tea (i.e., sencha) is made from harvesting, steaming and processing the new buds of tea bushes. These types of teas are considered best when drunk fresh. However, sannenbancha is a little different in that it comes from bushes that have been uncut for three years or from stems and leaves that have matured for three years.
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Product Info
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\nIngredients: Green tea
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\nNet weight: 100g bag
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Noriyasu Uejima is a tea master. In the 90+ year old tea tasting competition held in Kyoto, he is the only winner to ever achieve a perfect score. Cultivating and processing some of Kyoto's finest teas, the Ritz Carlton Hotel of Kyoto features his teas in their line up for guests. He is the 5th generation master farmer carrying on a tradition that dates back to the mid-19th century when his ancestor started the Uejima family as a branch family of an even older main family. The farm also operates the Wazuka Village's Wazuka Cha Cafe.
A blended, unshaded sencha coming from well-known tea farmer Uejima-san's Wazuka tea fields. The two cultivars, okumidori and tsuyuhikari both originate from Shizuoka prefecture. Okumidori, which one may be more familiar with is a well-rounded and mellow cultivar which perhaps does best when combined with another cultivar (of course, this depends on personal preference!). Uejima-san combined this Wazuka sencha premium with the tsuyuhikari (meaning \"dew light\") cultivar which is known for its high umami taste and refreshing color. It also has a fresh aroma and is delicately floral. Yes, this sencha is a dance of these two cultivars coming from the famous tea producing region of Wazuka!
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Noriyasu Uejima is a tea master. In the 90+ year old tea tasting competition held in Kyoto, he is the only winner to ever achieve a perfect score. Cultivating and processing some of Kyoto's finest teas, the Ritz Carlton Hotel of Kyoto features his teas in their line up for guests. He is the 5th generation master farmer carrying on a tradition that dates back to the mid-19th century when his ancestor started the Uejima family as a branch family of an even older main family. The farm also operates the Wazuka Village's Wazuka Cha Cafe.
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Sencha produced by the headwaters of the beautiful and famous Niyodo River (with the purest of waters) in Niyodogawa Village of Kochi Prefecture. Among the best teas, this “Kiri no Kiwami” sencha is the first picked (i.e., earliest picked) tea leaf. It is a particularly high-quality sencha that is rich in amino acids, which are umami ingredients. The Ikegawa Tea Farm Cooperative recommends this sencha for a gift for a tea lover or a reward for oneself. Please enjoy a luxurious and peaceful time with this tea from Niyodogawa.
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Product Info
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\nIngredients: Green tea
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Net weight: 100 grams
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Harvest: Spring
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Region: Niyodogawa Village, Agawa District, Kochi Prefecture
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\nTea: 5 grams. Time: 1 min. Water: 70C/158F, 200 ml.
\nLocation: 1696 Sakamoto, Niyodogawa Village, Agawa District, Kochi Prefecture
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Sencha produced by the headwaters of the beautiful and famous Niyodo River (with the purest of waters) in Niyodogawa Village of Kochi Prefecture. Among the best teas, this “Kiri no Kiwami” sencha is the first picked (i.e., earliest picked) tea leaf. It is a particularly high-quality sencha that is rich in amino acids, which are umami ingredients. The Ikegawa Tea Farm Cooperative recommends this sencha for a gift for a tea lover or a reward for oneself. Please enjoy a luxurious and peaceful time with this tea from Niyodogawa.
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Net weight: 100 grams
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Harvest: Spring
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Region: Niyodogawa Village, Agawa District, Kochi Prefecture
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Oyakocha, written as 親子茶, means literally \"parent & child tea\". It is made from a harvesting of the tea field between the first flush and the second flush about 6 weeks later. Late appearing leaf buds from the first flush (the children) and the larger base leaves (the parents) form the contents of this tea.
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Harvest: Spring
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Region: Niyodogawa Village, Agawa District, Kochi Prefecture
Oyakocha, written as 親子茶, means literally \"parent & child tea\". It is made from a harvesting of the tea field between the first flush and the second flush about 6 weeks later. Late appearing leaf buds from the first flush (the children) and the larger base leaves (the parents) form the contents of this tea.
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Region: Niyodogawa Village, Agawa District, Kochi Prefecture
\nLocation: 1696 Sakamoto, Niyodogawa Village, Agawa District, Kochi Prefecture
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Tea farmer Kuwazuru Sumiyoshi (Kuwazuru is his family name) is the only farmer to carry on this traditional method of shading tea leaves direct with straw. Warakake (literally \"straw covered\") is a deep-steamed sencha or fukamushicha from the Chiran Village in Kagoshima.
Tea farmer Kuwazuru Sumiyoshi (Kuwazuru is his family name) is the only farmer to carry on this traditional method of shading tea leaves direct with straw. Warakake (literally \"straw covered\") is a deep-steamed sencha or fukamushicha from the Chiran Village in Kagoshima.
Tea farmer Teruko Azuma is originally from China and married into the 4th generation, she and her husband manage a number of tea fields growing primarily tencha for use in matcha production but also a small reserve of sencha and other teas.
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Product Info
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\nName: Green Tea Series Sencha Okumidori
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\nJapanese name: 煎茶 おくみどり
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\nIngredients: Green Tea
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\nCultivar: Okumidori
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\nHarvest: Spring
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\nRegion: Wazuka, Kyoto
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\nNote: Grown without pesticides (in the process of organic certification)
Tea farmer Teruko Azuma is originally from China and married into the 4th generation, she and her husband manage a number of tea fields growing primarily tencha for use in matcha production but also a small reserve of sencha and other teas.
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This tea can comes with a screw top and holds approximately 40 grams of matcha powder. The rubber inside the screw top functions as a seal and keeps the can airtight, but the can is made primarily for frequent use of the matcha powder contained.
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This tea can comes with a screw top and holds approximately 40 grams of matcha powder. The rubber inside the screw top functions as a seal and keeps the can airtight, but the can is made primarily for frequent use of the matcha powder contained.
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STORAGE TIPS: For long term storage (1 month or longer without opening), be sure to double ziplock your bag or can, and store in the refrigerator. Be sure to allow the temperature in the container to equalize with room temperature before opening to prevent condensation...this takes about 3-4 hours.
The Maehara Tea Farm is a vertically integrated, family-operated farm located in the southern Japanese prefecture of Kagoshima. Their fukamushicha is a green tea that has been steamed for longer than usual (\"deep-steamed\") to create an opaque, deep green, richly flavorful tea, though the leaves themselves are broken apart as a result of the long steaming time.
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Most recently, they won the Kagoshima 2021 tea competition for regular sencha (award pictured in the product photo).
\nCultivar: Blended. The family raises dozens of cultivars as they are a propagator. They blend the leaves together to make their two fukamushicha retail products.
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\nHarvest: Spring
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\nRegion: Chiran, Kagoshima
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The Maehara Tea Farm is a vertically integrated, family-operated farm located in the southern Japanese prefecture of Kagoshima. Their fukamushicha is a green tea that has been steamed for longer than usual (\"deep-steamed\") to create an opaque, deep green, richly flavorful tea, though the leaves themselves are broken apart as a result of the long steaming time.
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Most recently, they won the Kagoshima 2021 tea competition for regular sencha (award pictured in the product photo).
\nCultivar: Blended. The family raises dozens of cultivars as they are a propagator. They blend the leaves together to make their two fukamushicha retail products.
Roasted Tencha Stems, in Japanese: Tenbone Houjicha (てん骨ほうじ茶) is made from the small amount of stems and veins of removed from Tencha(てん茶) during refinement while larger branch stems are made into Obubu's Suzume Hojicha. Tencha are the high grade unrolled tea leaves used to make matcha tea powder. Because you drink the entire leaf when you drink matcha, the leaves used for matcha tea powder need to be as sweet as possible. So when Tencha is created, Akky covers the tea plants for up to four weeks to reduce the amount of catechin (which creates bitterness) as much as possible.
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In the process of making matcha, the dried, unrolled tencha tea leaves are then separated into two groups, soft and tough parts. The tough parts are the stems and veins and they are called tenbone (tencha no hone, the bones of tencha).
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Akky has taken these bones of the tencha and lightly roasted them to produce a mild yet luxurious flavor. Enjoy the elegance of Tenbone Houjicha and all its sweetness and aroma!
Roasted Tencha Stems, in Japanese: Tenbone Houjicha (てん骨ほうじ茶) is made from the small amount of stems and veins of removed from Tencha(てん茶) during refinement while larger branch stems are made into Obubu's Suzume Hojicha. Tencha are the high grade unrolled tea leaves used to make matcha tea powder. Because you drink the entire leaf when you drink matcha, the leaves used for matcha tea powder need to be as sweet as possible. So when Tencha is created, Akky covers the tea plants for up to four weeks to reduce the amount of catechin (which creates bitterness) as much as possible.
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In the process of making matcha, the dried, unrolled tencha tea leaves are then separated into two groups, soft and tough parts. The tough parts are the stems and veins and they are called tenbone (tencha no hone, the bones of tencha).
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Akky has taken these bones of the tencha and lightly roasted them to produce a mild yet luxurious flavor. Enjoy the elegance of Tenbone Houjicha and all its sweetness and aroma!
Gyokuro Karigane is a blend of the leaf stems filtered out during the refinement of Uejima Tea Farm's gyokuro products. This leaf stem tea (kukicha) is given the more refined name of karigane, literally the \"sound of geese\". Karigane is a term mainly utilised in the Kyoto area of Japan and the term evokes the elegance of Japanese geese carrying a twig as it migrates across the Sea of Japan. When it tires, it places the twig in the water and rests on it... (very poetic!) or so the legend goes.
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If you are not too familiar with kukicha, one may wonder why people drink tea made from leaf stalks instead of regular leaf tea. It is because the stalks of green tea are also rich in nutrients, contain umami flavor, and have a pleasant aroma and flavor. In fact, stalks and stems receive less sunlight compared to leaves which result in less production of catechins and more sweet notes (umami) in brewed tea. This karigane from gyokuro leaf stems is definitely worth trying, coming from the famous tea producing region of Wazuka and well-known tea farmer Uejima-san!
Noriyasu Uejima is a hard working and humble tea master. In the 90+ year old tea tasting competition held in Kyoto, he is the only winner to ever achieve a perfect score. Cultivating and processing some of Kyoto's finest teas, the Ritz Carlton Hotel of Kyoto features his teas in their line up for guests. He is the 5th generation master farmer carrying on a tradition that dates back to the mid-19th century when his ancestor started the Uejima family as a branch family of an even older main family. The farm also operates the Wazuka Village's Wazuka Cha Cafe.
Uejima-san below gives a simple introduction about the Wazuka valley
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Gyokuro Karigane is a blend of the leaf stems filtered out during the refinement of Uejima Tea Farm's gyokuro products. This leaf stem tea (kukicha) is given the more refined name of karigane, literally the \"sound of geese\". Karigane is a term mainly utilised in the Kyoto area of Japan and the term evokes the elegance of Japanese geese carrying a twig as it migrates across the Sea of Japan. When it tires, it places the twig in the water and rests on it... (very poetic!) or so the legend goes.
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If you are not too familiar with kukicha, one may wonder why people drink tea made from leaf stalks instead of regular leaf tea. It is because the stalks of green tea are also rich in nutrients, contain umami flavor, and have a pleasant aroma and flavor. In fact, stalks and stems receive less sunlight compared to leaves which result in less production of catechins and more sweet notes (umami) in brewed tea. This karigane from gyokuro leaf stems is definitely worth trying, coming from the famous tea producing region of Wazuka and well-known tea farmer Uejima-san!
Noriyasu Uejima is a hard working and humble tea master. In the 90+ year old tea tasting competition held in Kyoto, he is the only winner to ever achieve a perfect score. Cultivating and processing some of Kyoto's finest teas, the Ritz Carlton Hotel of Kyoto features his teas in their line up for guests. He is the 5th generation master farmer carrying on a tradition that dates back to the mid-19th century when his ancestor started the Uejima family as a branch family of an even older main family. The farm also operates the Wazuka Village's Wazuka Cha Cafe.
Uejima-san below gives a simple introduction about the Wazuka valley
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A high quality, rich gyokuro coming from one of the most famous source regions of Ujicha, the village of Wazuka, where tea farmer Uejima-san is based. Gokou is an unregistered tea cultivar from Kyoto Prefecture which is mainly used to make gyokuro or tencha. It is a cultivar that works very well with shaded cultivation methods and so it is uncommon to find a gokou sencha. This gyokoro gokou from Uejima-san has a notable aroma and rich, creamy umami. Uejima-san's gyokuro is definitely worth at try, so if you aren't sure about trying the gokou cultivar, his Uji Kyotonabe premium gyokuro is just as excellent.
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Product Info
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\nIngredients: Green tea
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\nCultivar: Gokou
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\nNet weight: 50g bag
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\nHarvest: Spring
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\nRegion: Wazuka Village, Kyoto Prefecture
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About Tea Farmer: Noriyasu Uejima
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Noriyasu Uejima is a tea master. In the 90+ year old tea tasting competition held in Kyoto, he is the only winner to ever achieve a perfect score. Cultivating and processing some of Kyoto's finest teas, the Ritz Carlton Hotel of Kyoto features his teas in their line up for guests. He is the 5th generation master farmer carrying on a tradition that dates back to the mid-19th century when his ancestor started the Uejima family as a branch family of an even older main family. The farm also operates the Wazuka Village's Wazuka Cha Cafe.
A high quality, rich gyokuro coming from one of the most famous source regions of Ujicha, the village of Wazuka, where tea farmer Uejima-san is based. Gokou is an unregistered tea cultivar from Kyoto Prefecture which is mainly used to make gyokuro or tencha. It is a cultivar that works very well with shaded cultivation methods and so it is uncommon to find a gokou sencha. This gyokoro gokou from Uejima-san has a notable aroma and rich, creamy umami. Uejima-san's gyokuro is definitely worth at try, so if you aren't sure about trying the gokou cultivar, his Uji Kyotonabe premium gyokuro is just as excellent.
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Product Info
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\nIngredients: Green tea
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\nCultivar: Gokou
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\nNet weight: 50g bag
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\nHarvest: Spring
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\nRegion: Wazuka Village, Kyoto Prefecture
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About Tea Farmer: Noriyasu Uejima
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Noriyasu Uejima is a tea master. In the 90+ year old tea tasting competition held in Kyoto, he is the only winner to ever achieve a perfect score. Cultivating and processing some of Kyoto's finest teas, the Ritz Carlton Hotel of Kyoto features his teas in their line up for guests. He is the 5th generation master farmer carrying on a tradition that dates back to the mid-19th century when his ancestor started the Uejima family as a branch family of an even older main family. The farm also operates the Wazuka Village's Wazuka Cha Cafe.
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