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Ito, Kozue, 梢 伊藤
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What surprised me the most during my research on tea practitioners is that they are quite serious about their tea activity.Though it may sound like a naïve comment and disrespectful to tea practitioners, because, to put it simply, a tea ceremony (chakai) is a systematic procedure of serving and drinking whipped matcha tea.My prior question arose from their argument and criticism on their tea ceremony experiences.Indeed, the manners and procedures to serve and drink tea have been developed and unified through time by the rigid hierarchical teaching system of each school; 1 Iemoto, the head of each school, draws his/her authority from his/her linage as a genuine successor of the tradition, and distributes his/her taste for-and knowledge of-tea throughout the world to tea practitioners who belong to his/her school.But their activity and experience of Tea Ceremony is not singular as such, nor static and conventional; participants are not just following a prescribed program like machines.What I have observed, and participated in, are lively human practices, in which participants have fun, and which they discuss, or even criticize and complain about.
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Sensory / consumer
Taste, aroma, color and how people perceive matcha.
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Matcha is a main subject here (named in the keywords).
Ito, Kozue, 梢 伊藤. (n.d.). Contemporary Japanese Tea Ceremony and its Collective Creativity: Multiple Tea-worlds of Kanazawa City as Venues of Cultural Production. Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB).
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