TEAgether

TEAgether?

"TEA(o)gether, to enjoy tea of all varieties from all cultures!"
-- I began to call my tea gathering events TEAgether since I came to live in Columbus Ohio. In summer 2009, an OSU campus student group registered with the Ohio State Union, invited me to be their adviser and adopted TEAgether as the group's name (on Google Groups || an under-developed website of the group || a glossary for tea culture)

GENERAL INFO/HISTORY

How do we know the Chinese drank tea first? / LCSD.gov.HK

CLASSIFICATION

A new look at tea classification / Tony Gebely World of Tea
茶言觀色 (a Taiwan based ed site) on how to categorize tea

CULTURAL ASPECTS

Tea and other cultural media

• Qin and Cha / from John Thompson on the Guqin Silk String Zither
• Tea and Chinese calligraphy / LCSD.gov.HK

Examples of tea arrangement & tea gatherings

• Mid Autumn Festival

Selected Tea Culture undertakings

• 紫藤盧茶館

UNDERTAKINGS

Developing tea references and bibliography

• Tea Encyclopedia

SPREAD

Tea introduction into Europe / Naturalistic Spoon

Tea in England / Naturalistic Spoon

TRADITIONS

THE JAPANESE TRADITION

Introduction

• A nice general introduction on tea by Ito En.

Acquring teas and teawares

• Matchasource is a reasonable online store to acquire Japanese matcha and wares at the states.
• Ito En is a brand producer of bottled Japanese tea.

Sado (chado) references

• Chado Encyclopedia by a group following mostly the Urasenke school
• 茶の湯の樂しみ

Teawares references

- Cast Iron Tea Kettles
-- About Nanbu Cast Iron Tea Kettles (Nanbu tekki)

• 南部鉄器資料室

- Pottery

• Japanese Pottery Information Center






What's what A to Z menu

An introduction to Japanese tea ritual By Jennifer Lea Anderson
has an explanation on the use of koshiguro 腰黑清水注(check Google Books on My Library)
(this page is largely under construction)