Down to Houraidou

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Have a cup of some of the finest Japanese gyokuro green tea from my favorite little hole in the wall tea shop, Houraido (蓬莱堂). Today you’ll hear a 100+yo houhin teapot, a 60+yo tokoname water vessel, a 40+yo tin leaf container, and much more (including, possibly, a car driving through gravel in the distance…) Thanks for sharing tea with me.

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225 years of tea: 22 and a half minutes.

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I’m having tea anyhow, and I want to bottle some of these moments for others. I hope you find this to be an intimate and comforting portable space.

Do you ever have tea and think, “this would go well with some chainsaw noise” or “I wish someone would call me just now…” This first episode had some hiccups, but I will endeavor to reduce these as I get acquainted with the process.

Today you can enjoy with me a 19yr old compressed brick of puer tea prepared in an 80yr old yixing zhuni artistic tea pot and served in a 37yr old kutani tea cup on a 48yo tinplate chataku saucer. (225 years, if you count me)

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