The tea ceremony is called Chanoyu(hot
water for green tea) also called Sadou
(ways to serve tea).
It is a highly structured method of preparing
powdered green tea for guests. However, it is not only a manner of
making and serving tea, but also a composite art with various elements
of Japanese tradition; such as history, architecture, gardening, calligraphy,
pottery, lacquer ware, flower arrangement and so on.
Practicing tea ceremony would give us keen eyes
to see the beauty in simplicity, sensitivity to nature, artistic creativity,
and Buddhistic thoughts.
The whole making-tea process would produce a
peaceful atmosphere in each tea room and would bring comfort to our mind.
The tea ceremony, we are learning now, was originally
founded by Sen no Rikyu
in sixteenth century.
Rikyu's successors(his
sons and his leading pupils) have been handing down the way of the tea
ceremony to their posterity and followers up to the
present. |
