【PROFILE】

When she was a young girl, she wanted to do something that she loved.

Of course things were not quite so simple,

but one day she found something that she really loved to do.

It was Senchado.

Because she wants to know about adored tea young girl she decided to lean English tea when she was 20, and after that to begin studying Chinese tea when she was 40.

That is around the time that she discovered the highest quality tea in Japan called “Gyokuro”.

Gyokuro was the trigger that started me on the path of “Senchado.”

She studied she began to see the depth and complexity of Sencha and realized that to attempt this art that connect people half heartedly would never see me master it, and so she decided to devote herself and her life to this art completely.

In this way she went  from studying teas of the world to devoting herself wholly to Japanese Sencha for the first time. Tea Ceremony and Buddhism, which both have many different styles and schools are quite deeply related. Tea is the most deeply connected with Zen, and there is no place in Japan where there are so many temples and head schools of the arts as Kyoto.

10 years after she had begun her study of Senchado she had mastered 20 different processes, and received a master’s license. That is when she received the tea name of “Suwa Gaga.” By the time she was 60 she had completed another 20 processes and received the status of Esteemed master.

she graduated from university and received a doctorate for her work themed on “the possibility of preserving the Kyomachiya (Early Modern Merchant Homes) of Kyoto.” So she am determined to protect Kyoto’s traditional culture