The Roots Of Tea From Japan

All of a sudden, a light breeze caused little leaves to fall into the water. The emperor tasted the water and found it delicious (Higgins & Burke, 2014). Tea became an essential beverage in China. While the story of tea indicates that tea was introduced from Ancient China, tea has been a crucial trade product that travelled through centuries to reach almost every corner in the world. Higgins and Burke argue that from China to North American, tea developed to new variations, flavors, uses, production methods, and equipment. Also, tea rituals have developed and taken a significant place in local cultures (Higgins & Burke, 2014).

The words which Kawabata uses to describe a bowl used to drink tea brings attention to the elegance of the Japanese Tea Ceremony; in fact, the Oribe was “four hundred years old […] as tea masters have looked after it and passed it down through the centuries” (Kawabata 19-20). Tea practitioners must have recognized certain appealing qualities in the tea vessels that deemed them worthy of being passed down from generation to generation. Dick and Jane and the Japanese Tea Ceremony both place emphasis on beauty, with a detailed characterization of aesthetic elements.

The history of tea is long and complex, spreading across multiple cultures over a thousand years. Tea was usually served with light sandwiches and broths usually in the afternoon. Tea was first discovered by a Chinese Emperor Shen Nong in 2737 BC. By the mid-18th century tea tax was rising, and that 's why tea was being smuggled. If you were caught

John Young and Isaac Davis built the first ‘Western style’ building, Kailua-Kona, in Hawaii in 1795. Afterwards, three more brick palaces were constructed in Lahaina. These designs were very much like the Lahaina prison shown in previous pages. Even though Western brick houses slowly became predominant, “traditional grass hale were still prevalent, though adobe and coral block houses were also being built near Honolulu harbor” (“Hawaii History”).

The origins of tea are rooted in China (Food Timeline). According to legend, the beneficial properties of tea were first discovered by the Emperor Shen Nung in the year 2737 B.C. He drank only boiled water for hygienic purposes, and one day while he drank a breeze rustled the branches of a tree and a few leaves fell into his cup. Creating the first cup of tea. It is challenging to know whether or not the emperor was real or just a part of the spiritual and cultural development of ancient China. China was not unified as an empire until the third century, so it is unlikely emperors existed back then. One thing that is known is that tea was popular in China thousands of years ago. The first written reference of tea is in the third century B.C. A famous surgeon recommended the beverage to patients to increase concentration and alertness. Tea was first written as “tu” in ancient texts. This caused a good deal of confusion because the same Chinese character was used for both tea and Chinese sow thistles. Between 206 B.C. and A.D. 220 a Han Dynasty emperor ruled that when referring to tea, the characters should be pronounced as “cha”. From here on, tracing tea’s history became easier because tea acquired its own individual character (Food Timeline).

The architecture “norm” for aristocratic homes was in the Shinden-zurkuri style, “which was clearly based on the principle that the individual parts of the building should be merged as much as possible into the garden” (Yoshida, p.12). The main building, named the Shinden, represented the area reserved for the master himself, and always opened up to the south side of the garden. There were corridors, or tai-no-ya, connecting the Shinden to the rest of the buildings in the complex. There corridors created an enclosure which is where a lake would be placed and where the stroll garden was erected.

Elsie de Wolfe designed during the Victorian movement, however “had adopted the 1890’s preference for Neoclassicism” (Smith, 22). Unlike the cluttered and dark interiors of an average Victorian interior, her interiors were, “in the words of one visitor, ‘[models] of simplicity’” (Smith, 20). She redecorated the once cluttered dining room of her apartment in the

A popular, dominating style of home in Colonial America was the “Georgian” which can be traced to the prime of Europe, the Italian Renaissance. Georgian homes as presented lay on a raised foundation and are held by multiple pilasters, which happen to be equally distributed, for another characteristic of these early homes is symmetry. When the line of symmetry is drawn or imagined, the two halves appear identical. From even further than the ground up, from the foundation above, both houses have pillars, pilasters, windows, wood, glass, chimneys and so on of uniform size and style. Even the entablature that lies above the windows and columns appear to have no variation. Within this symmetrical design, there is stability, a decrease in the possibility that the house may cave in; rather than asymmetry, which has a higher likelihood of collapse.

During the Tang Dynasty, tea was widespread. The uprising of the tea culture brought the prosperity of literature in the Tang Dynasty because many monk-poets wrote poems about tea. Tea was very famous in the Buddhist monasteries during the Tang Dynasty. Monks drank tea as a beverage because they thought the tea can help them to stay awake, so that they could have more time to focus on their mediation. The art of serving and drinking tea in Buddhist monasteries inspired lots of Tang poets to create poems about tea.

It was and is most often the events that pertained to social interactions that were considered more significant than others. When performed indoors, in the eighteenth century, Carson explains, the settings where daily activities such as the taking of meals, tea taking, and entertaining company occurred were often differentiated in part by either architectural embellishments or specialized furnishings. “People with genteel sensibilities had a keen eye for such place-markers.” Sometimes use of a particular room is determined through investigative field work. However, as Dr. Carson points out, “those clues are rare.” The routines of daily living that helped shape domestic interiors, and in houses in particular, variations of habit and behavior differ widely putting “field-worker’s powers of observation to the test when investigating historic dwellings.” Sometimes, he expounds, special equipment or built-in furniture in the form of ovens, buffets or valance hooks used for suspending bed curtains gives investigators clear indication as to the activities that took place there. Those clues are few and far between. More often these completely empty architectural spaces contain very few clues as to their original function. Most rooms had to be furnished before they could perform their intended tasks. Some of the most fascinating evidence for the types of furnishings and goods that once filled these rooms are found in surviving probate inventories of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Probate inventories can give us specific information about individual goods individual rooms contained. In Charleston an abundance of historic probate records survive, and can be found peppered throughout the city in various collections and archives. Frustratingly however, even in the case of many of the surviving room-by-room probate inventories, rooms designations are listed only vaguely,

Tea was declared the National Drink of England in 1784. The eighteenth century saw the transformation of tea as an everyday necessity for the poor and working class of the British society. To meet the domestic demand at home, the British East India Company imported great volumes of tea from China. The tea import increased from an estimated 64 tons in 1711 to 6800 tons in 1791. Even heavy import tax could not deter an increasingly expanding domestic market for the Chinese tea. As tea drinking had become obsession with the British society, consumption of tea replaced home-brewed beer, gin, milk and traditional infusions of indigenous plants. This great transformation in the consumption pattern of British society led to the commodification of

In the Wikipedia article called Japanese housing written in March 28, 2018, it states that there was no designated use for a room except for the Genkan (shoe room), toilet, and Ofuro (bath). Any room can easily be transformed into the desired size using fusuma, sliding doors that create rooms when needed. This shows that the Japanese value flexibility because of the many ways you can arrange a Japanese house. In the article Shinden Zukuri Estates of the Heian Period written by Anthony Bryant, it says that the undeveloped space between two rooms or in the main courtyard was often filled with nature. They placed one dominant tree, smaller trees, and an artificial pond in the open space. Women were named after the dominant tree in the area that their pavilion faced. This demonstrates the fact that the Japanese value nature greatly in their homes and even name people after trees on the property. Shinden Zukuri values both nature and flexibility because of ponds and trees that they add to the home for decoration and the fusuma screens that allow for the transfiguration of rooms at

Russian— When importing tea became too expensive for the common citizen, tea was only found in the house of royalty and was presented beautifully at the entrance to represent hospitality. We created an exotic combination of black tea leaves, black cherry, black current, fresh plum, and a hint of menthol to represent the sophistication of the Russian's palette.

The Hoodo, Byodo-in Temple, located in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, is a beautiful piece of architecture. There are many curves involving the design of the roofs, which is a staple for East Asian architecture. Below the curved roofs the supports and rooms of the buildings in the Byodo-in Temple are predominantly square. A wood texture is dominant in the Byodo-in Temple, being the primary material used in its construction. The walls of the temple, which are white, contrast with the rest of building, which is usually a red or ochre color.

Chen Zongmao’s book supports the whole view of my research paper. It introduces the development of tea in different historic stages, and especially focuses on the culture of tea in different time. Moreover, it states Chinese tea from all the aspects such as tea’s category, how to drink tea, how to plant etc. This book is like a tea Encyclopedia that le