According to legend, he was the first Japanese emperor to drink tea.

Image: Hokusai tanuki tea kettle. jpg | A tanuki ( raccoon dog ) as a tea kettle, by Katsushika Hokusai ( 1760 — 1849 ), Japanese

For example, in the Japanese language up to and including the first half of the 20th century, the phonemic sequence was palatalized and realized phonetically as, approximately chi ; however, now and are distinct, as evidenced by words like tī " Western style tea " and chii " social status ".

* Commemoration of Sen no Rikyū ( Schools of Japanese tea ceremony )

During this time, Nobunaga's subject and tea master Sen no Rikyu established the Japanese tea ceremony which Nobunaga popularized and used originally as a way to talk politics and business.

Unknown to the Japanese, he was also able to smuggle out germinative seeds of tea plants to the botanical garden in Batavia.

is a type of Japanese pottery that is traditionally used in the Japanese tea ceremony, most often in the form of tea bowls.

In the 16th century, Sen Rikyū, the Japanese tea master, was involved with the construction of the Jurakudai and had a tile-maker, named Chōjirō, produce hand-moulded tea bowls for use in the wabi-styled tea ceremony that was Rikyū's ideal.

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Two principal varieties are used: the China plant ( C. s. sinensis ), used for most Chinese, Formosan and Japanese teas ( but not Pu-erh ); and the clonal Assam tea plant ( C. s. assamica ), used in most Indian and other teas ( but not Darjeeling ).

Flavored teas are prepared by adding other plants to an actual tea ( black, oolong, green, yellow, or white tea ); for example, the popular Earl Grey tea is black tea with bergamot ( the orange oil, not the herb of the same name ), jasmine tea is Chinese tea with jasmine flowers, and genmaicha is a Japanese green tea with toasted rice.

* Kuzuyu, is a thick white Japanese tea made by adding arrowroot powder to hot water

Major Japanese companies usually have Nyushashiki ( entry ceremony for companies ) for new employees those who newly hired after their graduation from schools, on this day.

* Japanese school calendar also starts from April 1, although Nyugakushiki ( entry ceremony for schools ) are usually held later, around second week of April.

Japanese TV channels decided to broadcast, simultaneously to the ceremony, his Museum in Tokyo, in what was at the time a unique media homage.

Topped out on 2 September 1998, the Sony Centre was formally opened on 14 June 2000 ( although many of its public attractions had been up and running since 20 January ), in another grand ceremony with more music-this time with Sony's Japanese Chairman Norio Ohga himself conducting the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra.

Work on the house started on 7 May 2001 and when the framework was completed on, a Japanese ceremony was held to mark what was considered an auspicious occasion.

In both ancient Japanese collections, the Nihongi and Kojiki, Ame-no-uzeme ’ s dance is described as asobi, which in old Japanese language means a ceremony that is designed to appease the spirits of the departed, and which was conducted at funeral ceremonies.

Under Hideyoshi's patronage, Rikyū made significant changes to the aesthetics of the tea ceremony that had lasting influence over many aspects of Japanese culture.

In 1988, Moon matched 2, 500 Korean members with Japanese members for a Blessing ceremony held in Korea, partly in order to promote unity between the two nations.

* November 10 – Enthronement ceremony of Japanese Emperor Hirohito is held, after some two years since he actually took the Imperial throne on December 26, 1926, the following day of the demise of Emperor Taishō.

* April 21 – Sen no Rikyu, Japanese exponent of the tea ceremony ( b. 1522 )

Origami butterflies were used during the celebration of Shinto weddings to represent the bride and groom, so paperfolding had already become a significant aspect of Japanese ceremony by the Heian period ( 794 – 1185 ) of Japanese history, enough that the reference in this poem would be recognized.

The Japanese tea ceremony, also called the Way of Tea, is a Japanese cultural activity involving the ceremonial preparation and presentation of matcha, powdered green tea.

His ideas would have a strong influence in the development of the Japanese tea ceremony.

The Japanese tea ceremony developed as a " transformative practice ", and began to evolve its own aesthetic, in particular that of " wabi-sabi ".

The elements of the Japanese tea ceremony is the harmony of nature and self cultivation, and enjoying tea in a formal and informal setting.

* List of Japanese tea ceremony equipment, for a full list of equipment used

Early Japanese societies used pottery before developing agriculture.

Category: Japanese pottery

Jomon pottery, Japanese stone age.

* Japanese potters begin to decorate pottery cooking vessels

The is the time in Japanese prehistory from about 14, 000 BC to about 300 BC, when Japan was inhabited by a Neolithic culture which reached a considerable degree of cultural sophistication, above all in pottery, despite limited development of agriculture and no use of metal.

The term jōmon means " cord-marked " in Japanese ; the English term was actually the first to be used, by the American scholar Edward S. Morse who discovered sherds of Jōmon pottery in 1877.

Archaeologist Junko Habu claims that " The majority of Japanese scholars believed, and still believe, that pottery production was first invented in mainland Asia and subsequently introduced into the Japanese archipelago ," and explains that " A series of excavations in the Amur River Basin in the 1980s and 1990s revealed that pottery in this region may be as old as, if not older than, Fukui Cave pottery ", which dates to around 10, 700 and was found in 1960.

Category: Japanese pottery

Category: Japanese pottery

leading Japanese scholars to insist that those found in Korea were either built by Japanese immigrants or influenced by culture brought by them, but the advanced artifacts found in Japan's tombs are Mongol people who came from Korea like the pottery, horse sculptures and earrings ,, so scholars have not been able to conclude anything about the direction of transfer.

A good example of this embodiment may be seen in certain styles of Japanese pottery.

* Japanese pottery, notably Hagi ware

There are often stories whose purpose is to illustrate various elements of Japanese arts and crafts, such as the fashioning of kites, swords, and pottery.

Onta Pottery is the name of a type of stoneware pottery made for everyday usage – typically called ' mingei ' ( folk art or craft ) in Japanese.

* Sue ware, ancient Japanese pottery

Japanese art covers a wide range of art styles and media, including ancient pottery, sculpture in wood and bronze, ink painting on silk and paper and more recently manga, cartoon, along with a myriad of other types of works of art.