The main home is accompanied by a guest house, a Japanese tea house, a gazebo and a green house.
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Overall, the selection is wide, but the traditional variety (the kind used in Japanese tea ceremonies) is matcha, a finely powdered green tea.
Wiccan offerings are made on the marble remains of a Spanish monastery behind the baseball diamond, and over-stimulated visitors can enjoy a moment of Zen at the Japanese Tea Garden.
Built on 3.5 acres of land traversed by a small stream, the stunning grounds were landscaped by Henry Matsutani who did the Japanese Tea Gardens in Golden Gate Park.
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The 4, 000-square-foot property features several 18-karat-gold-leaf ceilings, a guesthouse and 2.3 acres (just under a hectare) of grounds landscaped by Henry Matsutani, designer of the Japanese Tea Gardens in Golden Gate Park.
Koetsu was the first Japanese to sign one of his own tea bowls the famous "Fuji" bowl, now designated a national treasure by the Japanese and hence unable to be shown in the U.S. but he never ran his own kiln.
Oishi quickly won the ready-to-drink tea market, surpassing genuine Japanese brands such as Kirin and Pokka, and fending off foreign and local newcomers that also conveyed messages of a clean, green Japanese lifestyle.
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Roji is the Japanese term for a path leading to a tea garden, a symbolic moving away from the outside world into a contemplative place.
The man who drills home his point on Japanese demography, oblivious to turbulence and sloshing tea, is not a man who loses sight of his goal easily.
When Coca-Cola wanted to experiment with a supposedly healthy green-tea-flavoured drink, it targeted young Japanese women first.
Shoppers could spend a fortune on the finest shade-grown green tea from Fukuoka and seasonally-themed wagashi (traditional Japanese sweets), or simply roam the maze of shops for a feast of the visual variety.
The "way of tea" had become an essential part of the samurai-influenced code of upper Japanese behavior.
In a recent Japanese study that looked at nearly 500 Japanese women with stage I and II breast cancer, researchers found the women who drank more green tea before and after surgery had a lower chance of the cancer recurring.
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They are making "tea cups to cake stands to everything, 450 pieces in a beautiful raku, " a Japanese-style of pottery, Ms. Foppiani says.
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