Yamecha black tea by the Kurihara family
The Kurihara family, in addition to being specialists of gyokuro tea cultivation and production, also one of only a few family farms in Japan making black tea from their premium...
Guest blogs from tea farmers & tea experts
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Kurihara today ā demonstrating Handrolling sencha
Today, Akio is giving a Handrolling (temomi) tea demonstration at the Hirokawa highway service area. he says, āitās hot.ā At 32C/90F degrees, itās actually cooler than it has been in...
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Akio Kurihara-sanās tea field during the rainy season
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Autumn leaves and tea fields
Says tea farmer Yuji Kurihara: they havenāt met in a year but on their reunion the fall leaves and the tea fields rejoice (=Ā“āļ½)äŗŗ(Ā“āļ½=) The post Autumn leaves and tea...
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Akio Kurihara-san shares a photo of tea field undergoing restoration
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Yuji Kurihara, tea farmer on fire fighting duty
In a town as small as Yabe where the Kurihara Tea farm is based, fighting fire is a joint responsibility of the men. And last night, Yuji was on special...
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Obubu on NHK World TV
Obubu Tea Farm was featured in NHK World Newsline!! āSee video from link below: NHK World News āLearn more about Obubu and their products: Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms The post...
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Newspaper article on Furyuās Ikematsu-san
āIt will take two to three hours once I start talking about banchaā, says Nobuhiko Ikematsu (28), the representative of Furyu. The shop opened on October, 2013, in order to...
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Tea harvesting machine at Kurihara Tea Farm
Yuji Kurihara-san says: When the tea harvesting machine leaves for the tea field, it is like seeing off a traveler. When it returns, it feels as if welcoming them back...
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Yokota Tea Garden on Japanese evening news show News Every
This news report was about shincha in Sayama and one of the reporters visited Yokota Tea Garden!! ććććć¾ć§ē“ ęµćŖć¬ćć¼ććØćŖćć¾ćććęø”č¾ŗč£å¤Ŗćććć¹ćæććć®ēćććę¬å½ć«ććććØććććć¾ććć Posted by Yasuhiro Yokota on Thursday, May 7, 2015 The post Yokota...
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