Matcha History.

Matcha (powdered green tea) is a kind of green tea. In powder Tencha to them. To this stirred beverage by adding hot water. The tea ceremony, sweets, confectionary, beverages, and used to be used extensively as a material for cooking.

Matcha is a drink that has a history as already seen the literature on the surrounding Japan of the Heian period.

As the drink of the Heian era aristocracy, it is then also come to be drunk people, and finally, after the spread between the samurai, we like the candy, such as is now, also, use should be.

This green tea has been the first time sent in Japan, it seems to be popular as a drink of the aristocracy, as the tea ceremony, etc., initially it was rather introduced than etiquette in Japan, it is said to be a back and forth about the 8th century.

However, it is speaking of either being treated close to medicine, rather than as luxury goods, strong it was the body of quaint, it seems that a good drink.

This seems to have been recognized and the same kind of current overseas.

Although it may seem at the time of the tea culture did not take root tends decline, when it comes around the Kamakura period, it will be again dispersed by the monks of China.

Historically, it is also, now, it is has been said that for tea spread of cultivation method in Japan. I have drunk between people from this point.

Originally, or because in order to learn the Zen Buddhism is spreading monk that went to China, as a mental discipline and it was, and we have been a wide range of things called etiquette of green tea.

It is also, I must not have history, also I think that glimpse from within the current manners, has led to the current tea ceremony.

As you spread to common people, we are strictly bound by the popular entertainment elements in order to enjoy than manners, it has been said that there was also that it was done like a gambling hut brand of tea drinking.

At that point, it is among the daimyo, such as trendy expensive and glamorous tea send from China, it is there that the very large-scale tea party has become to be opened.

Under such circumstances, as a thought close to the mental discipline of before, I will spread the idea emphasize the exchange of silence between the entertaining side and the customer that movement came out.

This is said to be historical, which is widely followed and it has not been completed by entirely Rikyu famous Sen, inherits the Dawabi tea of "wabi", it is said to have been made ​​to the original spirit.

Tea ceremony is to use the green tea, which already is said to have completed within the modern, time, it it was that it was one that does not change much.

Green tea itself is spread up to the townspeople in the Edo era, history has also been marked as spread to tea ceremony general townspeople in this regard by time.

Then, in the Meiji era, Okakura Tenshin, one of Japanese culture, tea ceremony, such as green tea, which is now also known to the world, I introduced the Japanese tea ceremony also overseas.

However, due to the tea ceremony school, the three schools are now called 3000 Ie that seems it is has become the main school.

Currently, health boom around the world, rather than Japan, there is also the influence of not only the Japanese tea, tea has attracted a lot of attention.

While induction in various countries of the history of the future beyond the cultural borders of tea, but I do not go, I think it continues to evolve.