FIRST PERSON ASMR Japanese Tea Ceremony No Talking 

Thank you 🙏🏻 I really appreciate it 🍵

Thank you! Spectators usually don’t get to see it from this angle, but I figured it would be most educational to see it done as if you are doing it yourself.

Yes, it is the unfortunate reality of an elitist warrior class style of tea ceremony in which power and wealth is often demonstrated by abundance and wastefulness. It is and has always been the sad reality. For the sake of tradition, I make these videos in the way it is proper for our school of tea, but off the screen you might want to whip up another bowl of thin tea from what is left. Although this is not traditionally accepted.

You’re very right. I refer to tea ceremony often as a ‘microcosm of Japanese culture’ because it encompasses almost every aspect of Japanese culture and tradition. It is amazing to see how everything has been skillfully brought together in this singular practice.

I’m glad you enjoyed the video 🙏🏻 thank you for watching ❤️

Haha the samurai Jack master's quote, that tea ceremony is also a perfect ASMR

Come visit us for an otherworldly tea ceremony next time you're in Kyoto ;)

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Happy to share 🙏🏻

If needs be, I also teach these procedures online in one on one classes over zoom in case you’d like to take practice more serious.

Thank you 🙏🏻

Thanks for your questions! 1. There are various meanings for the host to present the koicha with his presentation napkin (a valuable brocade handkerchief), and also there are different theories. 1) The bowl can be very warm, so the host cares about his guests and suggests them to use his napkin to put the bowl on when taking it in their hands. Of course the guests prepare their own napkin and never use the host's. 2) It can be seen as a replacement for the most formal of presentations, which is the tenmoku bowl on a lacquered bowl-stand. With common bowls this stand is not used, but to maintain the form it can be said that the bowl for koicha is presented with the napkin as a replacement of the stand. 2. The utensils are of great importance in the tea ceremony. More so than the matcha itself per-se. At the end of the service the tea flask, its brocade pouch and the tea scoop are turned towards the guests to invite them to look at them and get a better appreciation for the utensils that the host has specifically chosen to entertain them with.

@@theteacrane thanks for your reply. Nice informations!

Most certainly the delicate tea ceremony fuels Japanese culture as a whole, wether someone realizes it or not, but a lot of the customs the Japanese observe are also reflected in the praxis of tea.

It’s covering the sunken hearth during summer. In winter it can be opened to reveal the sunken hearth.

The tea is quite thick and full of flavor and nutrition. However, thick tea (koicha) can only be made deliciously with a premium grade matcha that is suitable for it. If you make it with a standard matcha (even most ‘ceremonial’ grade ones available outside of Japan) will turn out too bitter to palate.

Thank you!

You do indeed. Go through the process of cleaning the bowl again before inserting and blending the tea.

It is to show care for all the implements that will be used to serve the tea with and show that you are making sure that everything is in the best shape for your guests. The cleansing is ritual as well and helps to focus and calm down the mind so that by the point you get to start making the tea, you are absolutely focussed and present.

@@theteacrane Ohhh! That makes a lot of sense! Thank you so much!

My school of practice is the Enshu style. If you need a kama I can help source and ship. Email me at contact@the-tea-crane.com

This is definitely not urasenke style. First 30 seconds are so different it's crazy.

Yes, you could do that in an informal drinking session. It is however bad practice in a formal setting and is never done in a proper tea ceremony setting. There are a whole lot of reasons why this is not done, most of them being culturally and historically relevant. But simply, the procedure for a service of koicha, does not involve making usucha.

@@theteacrane I am poor, from eastern Europe, ex communist country,, when I look at the price tag of a proper koicha matcha, first thing that comes to my mind is not to waste a single drop, tradition comes later.

@@onixxx1984 that’s the thing with koicha. It is ‘luxury in a bowl.’

In our tradition, the warrior-style Enshu school, we use three scoops for the frothy thin tea. This are in fact two full scoops and one ‘half’ scoop. The final half scoop serves as an adjustment if the initial two scoops were insufficient. Depending on the size of your tea scoop some scoops may be narrow or slender and can’t scoop a large enough amount. In this video however, I am preparing thick tea, koicha. In this case one bowl is prepared to be shared among all the guests and the calculation is as follows: 2 scoops multiplied by the number of guests + one scoop for the bowl. Since koicha is thick and can be quite adhesive one scoop is added as this amount will adhere to the bowl and can’t be consumed by the guests. Here I am preparing a bowl for one guest only, so I use 2 scoops for the guest + 1 scoop for the bowl, which amounts to a total of 3 scoops.

​@@theteacrane Thank you. I better understand your intentions thanks to your thorough explanation. I can see this while re watching the video now.🙇🏻‍♀

In Japanese a chaire or tea flask. This is the pottery container. The lacquered ones are chaki or tea caddies.

Thank you!@@theteacrane

Спасибо за добрый комментарий! Я очень ценю это. Thank you for the kind comment! I really appreciate it.

Special care is taken that the tea is still at the right temperature to drink at the end of the process by using sufficient hot water and warming the bowl prior to use.

お茶一服差し上げます。 "Allow me to present you with a bowl of tea"

Then perhaps you should watch more closely ;) the biggest difference is that in Jack’s tea, something was “missing”.

@@theteacrane ye i know

No it's two strongs not much It's suppose to two scops only according to japan

@@OnnaBlade no idea what you’re talking about? Sorry.

Thank you! Glad you enjoy it.

Yes! I shot this with a gopro on my forehead.

遠州流です。

It is the Enshu-style of tea ceremony.

@@theteacrane was beautiful. Reminds me of my time living in japan

Seeking the way of the warrior? Make a bowl of tea first 🙏🏻🍵

ご視聴ありがとうございました。

Yes, it is part of the cleansing process, to note, AFTER, the guests have drunk the tea.

Thank you. There are many tea ceremony traditions in Japan. Urasenke is not the only one around. What you see here is in the style of the Enshu tradition, one of the Warrior tea ceremony schools still prominently represented in Japan today.

Great! Guess I’ll play another game then.

You're so welcome!