2008年3月26日水曜日

Japanese Tea Ceremony








I will tell you about the condition of Japanese tradition “tea ceremony” now.
Tea ceremony is one of the Japanese traditions. Tea is green tea in Japanese “maccha” People make “maccha” in a certain way when they serve it to the guest and there are a lot of schools. For example, “rikyuryuu” was made by Senrikyu. Tea ceremony is very popular traditions from both Japanese and foreigner. From Japanese view, people who do tea ceremony have image that those people are quiet and good-looking. Therefore, women who want to have husband in a meeting with a view of marriage often say one of her hobbies is “tea ceremony”. If women say that man may regard the women that she become good wife. In that case good wife mean who work hard for husband without saying dissatisfaction. The reason of this kind of vies toward people who do “tea ceremony” is that Japanese people have a feeling of respect for “tea ceremony” itself.
From foreigner view, “tea ceremony” is representative of Japanese culture. A lot of foreigner want experience it at lease once. In one of the schools in “urasenke”, there are seminar of “tea ceremony” for foreigner. Why “tea ceremony” is popular among both Japanese and foreigner? The atmospheres in the room of “tea ceremony” make people calm and forget the stressful daily life. In fact, green tea contains the ingredient that make people relax. Moreover, flowers and ceramics that are used in “tea ceremony” are art of Japan. Therefore, foreigner can see not only “tea ceremony” itself but also another aspect of Japanese tradition.
For those reasons “tea ceremony” is very popular traditions.

1 件のコメント:

visual gonthros さんのコメント...

The tea ceremony is certainly a good topic for this week's theme, and you do a good job of explaining why the tea ceremony is a good example of traditional Japanese culture. Some of your descriptions are a bit vague, however. Where do you get your information from? Provide sources. You might want to explain about the different schools a little more. Better yet, why not provide links so that your readers can have easy access to more information?

What are your photos of? How are they supporting your text?