tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-300431352011-12-15T11:43:48.677+09:00Ken's Green Tea SalonSharing cultures is my precious with so many people. I want to introduce my country Japan to the world. One of Japanes culture is green tea. Yes, I really like it very much. so this blog will provide you Japanese green tea topics. We can share much information about it; health, taste, fashonable drinking methods so on.
Anything is OK!! Let'S have a talk and enjoy a lot together!!kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11418258156911872860noreply@blogger.comBlogger181100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30043135.post-1162447306056961462006-11-02T14:58:00.000+09:002006-11-02T15:01:46.063+09:00Autumn Colour in Narakenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11418258156911872860noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30043135.post-1162337180154349312006-11-01T08:18:00.000+09:002007-01-04T22:22:33.583+09:00My Home Townkenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11418258156911872860noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30043135.post-1162121791484811802006-10-29T20:32:00.000+09:002006-10-29T20:36:31.486+09:00Nagano The above picture is the called as Matsumoto castle in Nagano prefecture. I took this picture in September 2006. Matsumoto castle is one of well preserved historical build in Japan. There’s always many tourists there. Well I’ve been to the castle three times in my life. The first & second time was when I was around 12 years old. I was big fun of Japanese history and visiting historical kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11418258156911872860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30043135.post-1162121513084466692006-10-29T19:20:00.000+09:002006-10-29T20:31:53.616+09:00Matsumoto CastleThe above picture is the called as Matsumoto castle in Nagano prefecture. I took this picture in September 2006. Matsumoto castle is one of well preserved historical build in Japan. There’s always many tourists there. Well I’ve been to the castle three times in my life. The first & second time was when I was around 12 years old. I was big fun of Japanese history and visiting historical kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11418258156911872860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30043135.post-1157297135379236002006-09-04T00:18:00.000+09:002006-09-04T16:55:13.413+09:00Shizuoka Green tea farmsAt last I visited Shizuoka Green tea plants. The wide view of green tea plants in maintains, it is wonderful with ocean view far distances. It was nice sunny day to visit the green tea plants. I made a small trip to Shizuoka prefecture that is very famous place for green tea. The place is having proper weather for green tea trees. That was Japanese governmental idea to grow green tea field there.kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11418258156911872860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30043135.post-1153749890870977912006-07-24T22:25:00.000+09:002006-07-24T23:04:51.456+09:00The Silk RoadWhen I was 20 years old, I traveled the Central Asia. The ship took me to Shanghai from Osaka. I still remember my neighbor in the large second room was Estonian guy. He seemed to see his friend in Kyoto then on the way to Shanghai. Anyway the chance to meet him became to reason for me to close the country called Estonia. The summer in 2000 I visited Estonia, and it was my first trip to kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11418258156911872860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30043135.post-1153653386461610132006-07-23T19:48:00.000+09:002006-07-24T22:24:32.890+09:00The Japanese old house The couple of weeks ago, I visited one famous place in Saitama prefecture next Tokyo.The city called Honkawagoe is well preserved old one. In my experience this type of house above picture is very rare to find around Tokyo. But it is near Tokyo. Kyoto & Kamakura are very popular among tourists. Honestly I really didn’t know anything of Honkawagoe. It is called as small Edo; Edo was Tokyo’s kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11418258156911872860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30043135.post-1153020765087106642006-07-16T12:10:00.000+09:002006-09-04T17:00:29.973+09:00Pick leaves up three times per a yearBasically the green tea plants farmer, they are going to pick leaves up three times per a year. The fist period is approximately in the end of April to the end of May. The most excellent green tea is made from leaves in this period. Please just imagine the tea trees (guess it looks like bush having many leaves). They pick up the top places of trees that indicate buds. Maybe you can think like it’kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11418258156911872860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30043135.post-1152423305451217032006-07-09T14:07:00.000+09:002006-07-25T03:49:25.946+09:00Tea has some stories and for eternal life!?I've just checked a couple of articles about the history of Japanese Green tea. It seems like coming from China in the beginning of 9th century by one Japanese monk who learned Buddhism there. His name is Saicho. He brought tea seeds. Still it's not sure where Japanese green tea came from. There are two places as candidates. One is Yunnan, south west China. And other is Assam, north east India. kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11418258156911872860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30043135.post-1152194240884214702006-07-06T22:39:00.000+09:002006-09-04T16:59:46.356+09:00The long long way to drink excellent green tea in the beginning of tea history Once up time, Matcha(Powdered Green tea) was kept in a big pottery pot. If the shogun(Japanese general, highest rank worrier among Samurai) asked Tea master(茶人sajinn), they picked up leafs from the pot. Nowadays the quality of leaf is getting better and better. So we don’t need to wait for maturing leafs, putting then into pot so long. Actually it was not available soon because the taste was kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11418258156911872860noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30043135.post-1152100995621596642006-07-05T20:37:00.000+09:002006-09-04T17:00:02.940+09:00The art of Matcha millNow I'm going to explain about the Matcha mill. The weight of stone is approximately 10kg. Currently tea artisans are using 25kg. They scroll the mill on the way of anti clock (right to left). The bottom of upper stone (can't be seen in this photo. There two parts of stone on the flat stone plate) has so many edges. There’s 8thypes of edge lines to mince the leaf. The surface of lower stone also kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11418258156911872860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30043135.post-1152022442704361212006-07-04T22:35:00.000+09:002006-09-04T16:59:23.626+09:00One of My Favorite bottle Green Tea "Iemon"Today I took this picture in our office. The quality of photo is very low taken by mobile phone's camera. Anyway every morning I drink Green tea. Sometime I buy this bottle. The name is Iemon. Exactly Iemon is Japanese old fashion name for man. You can see the name at the center of bottle written vertically: "伊右衛門". So why I like this bottle?? Of course taste is also one of the reasons. But the kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11418258156911872860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30043135.post-1151840537149148752006-07-02T20:20:00.000+09:002006-09-04T16:59:04.046+09:00The color coordination One of my colleague, she studies color coordination. She has a talent about colors relevant to website, business presentation, and total design. She is learning how colors are effecting our eyes and feeling. Colors seem to have their own meaning or image. So I asked her about Green. According to her, the color of green has images of peace, contentment etc. Hmm, it might be understandable for kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11418258156911872860noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30043135.post-1151838847511619332006-07-02T20:06:00.000+09:002006-09-04T16:58:43.273+09:00Matcha Latte in weekend Sorry last couple of days I had been in busy for my job & private issues. This weekend was quiet peaceful and gave me a time to forget about my job. Thanks to my girl friends and ex-coworker, everything goes to fine. I enjoyed the movie called Da Vinci Code in a theater, thenchat in a cafe, drinking Matcha latte (not traditional way to enjoy green tea but nice and new fashion). Well at the kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11418258156911872860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30043135.post-1151479177271547292006-06-28T15:59:00.000+09:002006-09-04T16:58:23.603+09:00Catechin effectSo What is exactly Catechin? How does it effect human body??Catechin is polyphenol active element, and also called as tannin too. This type of polyphenol element is seemed to be available only in tea (black tea, Wulong tea also have catechin.)Green tea has much amount of catechin (sharing 8 to 15% in itself).Effect to:1 protect cancers, anticancer2 high blood & sugar diabetes3 anti-aging4 help tokenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11418258156911872860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30043135.post-1151335430407616612006-06-26T23:29:00.000+09:002006-09-04T16:57:57.686+09:00Plastic Bottle Green tea name Catechin Green teaIn Japan everywhere you can find vending machines for beverage. Japanese Green tea is not also exception. Currently so many types of green teas are available. It's really amazing andsometime it can be difficult for us to know the production lineup. You will see various types.Yes, Japanese Green tea is not unique at that point.Whenever I buy plastic bottle tea, I would buy my favorite one from kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11418258156911872860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30043135.post-1151249259509950342006-06-26T00:14:00.000+09:002006-09-04T16:57:37.116+09:00Good medicine for headacheThis morning I had headache and stomachache cause of drinking beer pretty much last night.And then I had to try getting out such bad situation. Otherwise I lose nice Sunday morning.Whenever I have headache for alcohol, I always take much water & green tea. It's really effective to my body in good way. Japanese green tea is one of my good doctor to recover my health.(but I know if I give up kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11418258156911872860noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30043135.post-1151202278699712012006-06-25T11:24:00.000+09:002006-09-04T16:56:42.343+09:00Ken's Green Tea SalonKen's Green Tea SalonThe day before yesterday, I read an article about Japanese green tea. In ancient time, Japanese green tea was powdered one originally. Then it was used as medicine. Yes, it is understandable. Just imagine, If we drink Matcha which is powdered green tea, it means we are getting leafs in our body. Nowadays, Japanese green tea has been getting much eyes and attention from all kenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11418258156911872860noreply@blogger.com1