Book: Urasenke Tea Procedure Guidebook Level 1

This book describes the fundamental techniques of beginners' Japanese Tea Ceremony. Recent Grand Tea Master, Sen Soshitsu, begins his examination of tea's origins and development from the eighth century through the Heian and medieval eras. This volume illustrates that modes of thinking and practices now associated with the Japanese Way of Tea can be traced to China, where from the classical period, tea was imbued with a spiritual quality.