I suffer from panic attacks. But this video just soothes or at least puts them at bay just watching this video. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for this video. 🙏
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.
The basic idea, from what I can gather: Its all about routine and discipline. This particular art of personal ceremony is as old as Japan itself, more or less. Its nowhere near as widely practiced, but its one of, if not THE corner stone to a big part of their culture. Each movement is done with care, grace, and affirmative commitment to the craft, personally perfected. Few if ANY other nations have a culture as steeped in discipline as this. And yes, it takes literal YEARS to get this exactly right. Long enough that once you start, its just muscle-memory sometimes. I apologize if thats a common misconception or even an exaggeration. No disrepect meant. I do truely find this quite fascinating
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.
This video is amazing! Perfect stress reliever! I work as a paramedic and it gets overwhelming at times. this video has made me rest well after a long time of struggling with work-induced insomnia. Thank you so much ! cant wait for more videos! @The Tea Crane
Thank you! 🙏🏻🍵 When you do visit please join us for a tea ceremony experience to feel the energy of such an occasion live 🍵 tea-ceremony-kyoto.com/best-tea-ceremony-in-kyoto/
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.
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.
i love the small movements this kind of art includes. I have 2 questions if you could answer them 1. When you gave the bowl with koicha to the quests in the same position you put the towel you use. Is like permission to drink their tea or something? 2. At the end after cleaning your utensils you put the matcha you used in direction infron of quests. Is like the quests to see which matcha you uses for their koicha?
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.
I always liked too see how japanese people are so organizated in almost everything and how gentle the movements are (in the videos i see that's how most of them are) (also I hope I wrote everything right)
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 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.
The leftover koicha could have served as an usucha. I have a tetsubin at home and all thr equipment to perform a bon temae, I always have a Kuro Raku from Shoraku III it has kamogawa river stone in the glaze, so the koicha slides out, but I still re use the lefovers, so no mottainai.
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.
I understand if this comment is a bit late. Forgive me. 🙇🏻♀ Question: Why did you use three scoops instead of the usual two? What is the reason behind this?(from how you were taught, or how you learned)
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.
the sound is perfect, but the lightning is bad. But overall, this makes me fall asleep. I really like it. More ASMR video like this please. Arigatogozaimas
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.
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.
Talk about unintentional ASMR. Wow!!! This video is now part of my before bed ritual.
Oh that was a long preparation and now I can taste a tea...
13:45 - NANI...!!!
This is so beautiful to see! The delicacy and elegance of the hand movements and the sounds! So amazing.
I suffer from panic attacks. But this video just soothes or at least puts them at bay just watching this video. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for this video. 🙏
Interesting to see it from a different perspective..
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.
Hypnotizing. Barely at 2:30 and was already nodding off. Great work!
“This is terrible
It has all the necessary ingredients
But it lacks the most important one, balance”
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
do love how can tell that the bowl has been repaired by the gold seems.. dont know alot of traditional things however i do know and love that one
The basic idea, from what I can gather: Its all about routine and discipline. This particular art of personal ceremony is as old as Japan itself, more or less. Its nowhere near as widely practiced, but its one of, if not THE corner stone to a big part of their culture. Each movement is done with care, grace, and affirmative commitment to the craft, personally perfected.
Few if ANY other nations have a culture as steeped in discipline as this. And yes, it takes literal YEARS to get this exactly right. Long enough that once you start, its just muscle-memory sometimes.
I apologize if thats a common misconception or even an exaggeration. No disrepect meant. I do truely find this quite fascinating
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.
went to a tea ceremony on a trip to japan not long ago, watching this makes me miss it so much
Come visit us for an otherworldly tea ceremony next time you're in Kyoto ;)
The texture and colour of the tea make it look like paint
This video is amazing! Perfect stress reliever! I work as a paramedic and it gets overwhelming at times. this video has made me rest well after a long time of struggling with work-induced insomnia. Thank you so much ! cant wait for more videos! @The Tea Crane
This is going into my favorites. It's so relaxing, and interesting at the same time.
The finger move was totally unexpected at 13:31 😮
I wish i could someday travel to Japan.I loved the asmr here and it was very interesting the way you showed us how a ceremony is usually done.🙇♀️❤
Thank you! 🙏🏻🍵
When you do visit please join us for a tea ceremony experience to feel the energy of such an occasion live 🍵
tea-ceremony-kyoto.com/best-tea-ceremony-in-kyoto/
could you please make another video like this - first person? it's pure delight to watch!
Amazing. Thank you very much for such an interesting video. I look forward to seeing more.
Nice execution and handwork.
Seeing all that matcha left in the chawan ending up in the kensui made my heart ache a bit 😅
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.
Thank you for showing this amazing piece of japanese culture!
Happy to share 🙏🏻
Thank you for this!🙂
You're so welcome!
This is absolutely wonderful ❤
Thank you so much for sharing this!🙏🏻 Can finally try to teach myself how to practice the tea ceremony procedure at home. Much love! ❤
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.
Is this ceremony specific to koicha?
I've never tried it so pardon the question, how strong is the tea's taste? It looks like the tea to water ratio is quite large.
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.
i love the small movements this kind of art includes. I have 2 questions if you could answer them
1. When you gave the bowl with koicha to the quests in the same position you put the towel you use. Is like permission to drink their tea or something?
2. At the end after cleaning your utensils you put the matcha you used in direction infron of quests. Is like the quests to see which matcha you uses for their koicha?
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!
I always liked too see how japanese people are so organizated in almost everything and how gentle the movements are (in the videos i see that's how most of them are) (also I hope I wrote everything right)
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.
hi there, do you know if there is an electronic heater that will go inside a furo-gama type of chagama? or do i need to use charcoal?
What style tea ceremony is this? Looks a little different than I remember.
So, when you want a second serving of koicha - do you start all over again? Warming the chawan, drying it, etc.?
You do indeed. Go through the process of cleaning the bowl again before inserting and blending the tea.
What style are you doing? Sorry i dont see it ressembles any school that i've watched before
is the tatami mat in that section where you place the tea smaller because its designed to be pulled out to clean ?
It’s covering the sunken hearth during summer. In winter it can be opened to reveal the sunken hearth.
At 6:29 he turns into a housefly
Very interesting to watch!
Thank you 🙏🏻
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This is so amazing, I'm just curious, what is the reasoning at the start with gently wiping stuff down with a cloth?
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!
Is there a specific name for the type of container that's holding the matcha?
In Japanese a chaire or tea flask. This is the pottery container. The lacquered ones are chaki or tea caddies.
Thank you!@@theteacrane
The leftover koicha could have served as an usucha. I have a tetsubin at home and all thr equipment to perform a bon temae, I always have a Kuro Raku from Shoraku III it has kamogawa river stone in the glaze, so the koicha slides out, but I still re use the lefovers, so no mottainai.
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.’
I understand if this comment is a bit late. Forgive me. 🙇🏻♀
Question:
Why did you use three scoops instead of the usual two?
What is the reason behind this?(from how you were taught, or how you learned)
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.🙇🏻♀
Karate kid 2, tea ceremony scene is still. Best asmr.
Thank you!
What does he say in the beginning when he bows towards the tea?
お茶一服差し上げます。
"Allow me to present you with a bowl of tea"
"This is terrible!"
-Samurai Jack, Adult swim
こんにちは
Is that the urasenke style?
Very relaxing.
Do you know a website to buy an electric kama like yours?
Thanks for the video. どうもありがとう
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.
the sound is perfect, but the lightning is bad. But overall, this makes me fall asleep. I really like it. More ASMR video like this please. Arigatogozaimas
Thank you! Glad you enjoy it.
Man by time hes dones tea gonna be cold af😂
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.
Did you wear a go-pro for this
Yes! I shot this with a gopro on my forehead.
*thinkin about Samurai Jack* I don't see different
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.
流派はどこですか？
遠州流です。
Невероятно изящно! Хоть и слегка расточительное потребление чая.
Спасибо за видео 👍
Спасибо за добрый комментарий!
Я очень ценю это.
Thank you for the kind comment!
I really appreciate it.
I mean what school
It is the Enshu-style of tea ceremony.
@@theteacrane was beautiful. Reminds me of my time living in japan
thats a really thick matcha.
I was moer intreged to wach
Karate kid 2 brought me here
Seeking the way of the warrior?
Make a bowl of tea first 🙏🏻🍵
Wait,is it part of the process to stick your finger in your guest cup of tea too?
Yes, it is part of the cleansing process, to note, AFTER, the guests have drunk the tea.
疑似体験させていただきました。
ご視聴ありがとうございました。
Respect of what style ??? Il recognize absolutly none ofwgat is learned...
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.
It doesn't need to be 100% authentic. It merely needs to be intoxicating in a way that makes you sleepy.
Chai nhi nautanki kr raha ha bass
stirring anti-clockwise is most against the rules.. you are disqualified
Great! Guess I’ll play another game then.