Introduction Over the past two years, Haruka Matsuo — a Japanese artist and tea master living and working in the Gooi region — has been developing Tea Tree, Tea Treaty, a contemporary teahouse at the Meentwerf in Hilversum. The project aims to explore how the essence of a traditional teahouse can be reinterpreted in a contemporary context, while establishing connections to the community, soil and history of the Naardermeer. The teahouse is constructed entirely from recycled m

Soil of Johannahoeve in Deventer next to Ijssel river Johannahoeve, Farmer family Klunder Farmer Klunder Ground of Johannahoeve became...

Artist Haruka Matsuo was born in Tokyo and grew up in Mie Ken(三重県) in Japan with two artist parents. As the ninth-generation successor to...

Today was first day of Kigata Banko workshop. I gave a workshop at Mira’s atelier. I did green tea ceremony with strawberry Daifuku...