2025年05月07日

Edo Saryo is a workshop where you can enjoy tea ceremony painting, tea, and tea sweets all together. The history of tea

It is said that the origins of today's tea culture date back to the early Kamakura period about 800 years ago, when Zen Master Eisai, the founder of the Rinzai sect, brought tea seeds back from China's Song dynasty. This tea was not brewed and drunk like sencha, but was consumed as powdered matcha, the same way it is today. Zen Master Eisai's "Kissa Yojoki" is Japan's first literature on tea, explaining cultivation methods and benefits. The seeds of tea were sown by the venerable Myoe of Kozanji Temple in the outskirts of Kyoto, including Uji, Ninnaji, Daigo, and other places, playing a major role in the subsequent spread of tea.

At Edo Saryo, we offer workshops specializing in hand-painting, an experience that anyone can easily enjoy, from pottery-making, pottery wheel experiences, hand-building, and hand-painting. In this two-hour course where you paint, enjoy, and chat, you can enjoy tea and Japanese sweets with your own hand-painted tea utensils, stimulating your sensibilities, creativity, and imagination. It is an experiential art and cafe workshop.
For Tokyo sightseeing, sightseeing souvenirs, Japanese souvenirs, and Japanese experiences, please visit Edo Saryo.

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It is said that the origins of today's tea culture date back to the early Kamakura period about 800 years ago, when Zen Master Eisai, the founder of the Rinzai sect, brought tea seeds back from China's Song dynasty. This tea was not brewed and drunk like sencha, but was consumed as powdered matcha, the same way it is today. Zen Master Eisai's "Kissa Yojoki" is Japan's first literature on tea, explaining cultivation methods and benefits. The seeds of tea were sown by the venerable Myoe of Kozanji Temple in the outskirts of Kyoto, including Uji, Ninnaji, Daigo, and other places, playing a major role in the subsequent spread of tea.

At Edo Saryo, we offer workshops specializing in hand-painting, an experience that anyone can easily enjoy, from pottery-making, pottery wheel experiences, hand-building, and hand-painting. In this two-hour course where you paint, enjoy, and chat, you can enjoy tea and Japanese sweets with your own hand-painted tea utensils, stimulating your sensibilities, creativity, and imagination. It is an experiential art and cafe workshop.
For Tokyo sightseeing, sightseeing souvenirs, Japanese souvenirs, and Japanese experiences, please visit Edo Saryo.