Making your own homemade mouthwash is easy and inexpensive. I did some research online, and concluded that it was best to use water and baking soda as the main...
Japan’s First Registered Tea Cultivar: Benihomare
Benihomare (べにほまれ, literally “red honor”) was registered as tea cultivar number 1 in 1953, the same year as the popular Yabukita cultivar, which is number 6. Japan is famous...
Wakoucha: Japanese Black Tea
Wakoucha (和紅茶) is the term for black tea that was harvested and processed in Japan. Japanese black tea isn’t known much outside Japan, but I’m sure that it will...
The Saemidori Tea Cultivar
Saemidori (さえみどり), meaning “clear green”, is a cultivar that produces a bright green liquor. It seems to be getting more popular among Japanese tea farmers, although it has still...
The Asatsuyu Tea Cultivar
Asatsuyu (あさつゆ) is a cultivar best known for being “natural gyokuro”. The reason is that it has a taste similar to gyokuro without the need to go through the...
About the Zairai Tea Cultivar
If you like to buy different Japanese teas online, you may have run across teas that are made with the “zairai cultivar”. What kind of tea cultivar is it?...
The Okumidori Tea Cultivar
Okumidori (おくみどり) is a Japanese tea cultivar that while not as popular as Yabukita, it does have many adepts. The Okumidori cultivar has leaves with an elliptical shape similar...
Yabukita: The Cultivar that Changed the Japanese Tea Industry
The Yabukita (やぶきた) cultivar is the most popular in Japan, no other cultivar comes close. It covers 75% of the area of Japanese tea fields (data from year 2010)...
Japanese Tea Cultivar List
There are many Japanese tea cultivars, although in reality only a few are extensively cultivated. I’m sure that Japanese tea enthusiasts would like to know about all the ones...
Japanese Tea Cultivars
Have you heard about Yabukita before? It’s the name of the most popular Japanese tea cultivar. This post is the first in a series about the cultivars found in...
Eating Spent Tea Leaves
In a previous article, I wrote about how to dry used tea leaves. The idea was to avoid waste by finding another use for your spent tea leaves. This...
Fukamushi Sencha: Taking Steaming a Step Further
This is my first guest post for T Ching, a tea blog that has been around since 2006. I’ll be writing more posts for T Ching every now and...