The Glocal Book:"The Book of Tea" by Okakura Kakuzou(Tenshin)-No.28

Teaism Establishment in Japan

- The Tea of Teas -

「By the fifteenth century, under the patronage of the Shogun, Ashikaga-Yoshimasa, the tea ceremony is fully constituted and made into an independent and secular performance.
Since then Teaism is fully established in Japan.
The use of the steeped tea of the later China is comparatively recent among us, being only known since the middle of the seventeenth century.
It has replaced the powdered tea in ordinary consumption, though the latter still continues to hold its place as the tea of teas.」(From the Book of Tea-the School of Tea, p.32,
Charles E. Tuttle Co., Rutland, Vermont-Tokyo, Japan)
Even though in China, the powdered tea was disappeared, the culture ｉｓ continued and expand to grow in Japan.
In place of the powdered tea inChina, the steeped tea was developed .
Now at the present day, the many kinds of the steeped tea are current use all over the worlds.
In Japan, almost all japanese drink the steeped tea every day .
Most of them are as the beverages and/or kinds of supplementary basis.

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