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"Shifuku" are the fabric bags that are made for individual Chaire (tea containers used for thick tea) and they are often made from old or reproductions of historical fabrics that have particular names, stories and affiliations. This pattern might have been the favourite of a particular Tea iconic figure, that pattern might have been a ( Read more... )

はじめまして！

I'm Tallulah and I've been learning Uresenke style Tea since about 2018.  I enjoy making the sweets (often from scratch) that accompany it (and grow some of the more difficult to source ingredients for Japanese pickles in my garden).
As I've learned more, and especially since I started learning to make Koicha (thick tea), one of the things ( Read more... )

I had an email from this platform reminding me it has been *nineteen years* since I started an account here.
This account has been idle for lot of them - I've grown and learned a lot since I started. It's been interesting learning who I am, what is important to me and watching that change over time. I'm on a lot of social media platforms, I used ( Read more... )