The Illustrated Guide to the Zen Tea Ceremony

“Soryo Matsumura has produced a richly illustrated volume that […] covers the utensils, dress code, and even the precise physical forms that give the ceremony its quality of embodied mindfulness. The full-color photographs and illustrations elevate the text considerably, making this a visually beautiful rendering of the way of tea.” —Seattle Book Review

Soryo Matsumura is an associate professor in the Urasenke school of tea, one of the three main Japanese tea schools. He is founder of the tea practice space Shuhally, where he holds tea ceremony classes with a contemporary slant. He has an MBA from the University of Wales. While traveling abroad as a student, he realized how little he knew about his own culture, and on returning to Japan, he began studying the way of tea. Guided by his philosophy that ‘tea should be more free, more joyful’, he hosts tea gatherings across Japan and internationally.

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