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Japanese Tea Ceremony Course & Workshop
Ceramic Workshop
Kigata Banko Teapot
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Duration: 2 days , 5-6 hours each day (including Japanese lunch)
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Location: Gooische theehut, Mierenmeent 122, 1218 EM Hilversum
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Fee: Two days 495 euro
Using puzzled wooden mould to create your own teapot and would you like to create your own teapots set for your ceremony? You will be guided step by step to make your own teapot with Japanese traditional wooden mould. You hold your own teacups filled with warm tea from your handmade teapot.
Ceramic Workshop
and Japanese lunch
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Duration: 4 hours (including Japanese lunch)
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Location: Gooische theehut, Mierenmeent 122, 1218 EM Hilversum
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140 euro
In this workshop, you’ll get hands-on experience with a variety of techniques to shape a simple lump of clay into unique, functional, or decorative items—whether it's a cup, bowl, vase, or any other piece you can dream up. We will guide you through each step, ensuring a fun and fulfilling creative journey.
Tea ceremony Course
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Duration: 30-60min
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Location: Gooische theehut, Mierenmeent 122, 1218 EM Hilversum
Ōbaku Baisa-Ryū is a sencha school that inherits the ideas of the Zen priest Baisao Koyugai and has developed from the tea ceremony of Zen Buddhism Ōbaku shū.
It is based on the ideas of ‘making a bowl of tea more delicious and enjoyable to taste, and valuing each other's hearts through the tea’.
Optional: After two years of taking this courses, you are eligible to acquire official certification after an exam at Iemoto (Grand Master in Japan).
Japanese tea ceremony
Experience Workshop
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Duration: 120 min
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Location: Gooische theehut, Mierenmeent 122, 1218 EM Hilversum
In this Experience Workshop "HATSUTEMAESANPO", we will teach you how to properly prepare delicious tea at home, including the correct amount of tea leaves and the appropriate water temperature.
Japanese tea ceremony
Japanese tea ceremony is a tradition in which tea drinking has been elevated to a true art form. The ceremony is not just about drinking the tea, but the whole process: the beauty of the ritual; preparing and drinking the tea as mindfully and consciously as possible from the heart. It is an exercise in being here and now.
During the tea ceremony, one gives attention and time to oneself to shake off stress. This opportunity brings each together and shares time and space in a contemplative way - dialogue in silence.
GREEN TEA IN THE REALM OF TRANQUILITY
Kigata Banko Yaki was invented 190 years ago by Japanese craft artist Yusetsu Mori (1808-1882). He applied a puzzled wooden mold technique to teapot-making for green tea ceremonies. After the teapot is shaped, the wooden mold can be cleverly deconstructed and removed from inside. This technique allows the teapots to keep the warm handmade feel while being very thin and light, perfectly suitable for preparing green tea.
Japanese artist Haruka Matsuo graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts and Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam. Having studied under Seigetsu Iriyama (1922-2014), Haruka is the 9th successor of Kigata Banko Yaki technique. She adds elements from her own artworks into each tea set giving them a light and modern look.
Meanwhile the molds that these tea sets are made with, are over 120 years old.
Sign up News Letter
Coming up workshop will be informed by Instagram and News letter.
Mierenmeent 122, 1218 EM Hilversum
info@japansetheepot.nl | Tel: +31 6 2323 5888
