SENCHA: SALON CULTURE AND THE ART OF INFUSED TEA 4 AUG 2024

Sun 4 August 2024

Jesus College

As a joint event with the Japan Foundation, and Jesus College, we’re thrilled to present an afternoon of ceremony, tea, and the history of sencha. We will convene in the Elena Hall, Jesus College, Cambridge. Tickets available below.

In this very special event, sencha master TSUKUDA Shio will give an illustrated talk about the history of sencha and the salon culture—intellectual gatherings originating in the mid-Edo period, used primarily to discuss arts and culture—in which sencha played a key role, whilst also demonstrating the exquisite manner in which sencha is prepared and how it can be appreciated in daily life. After the lecture and demonstration in the Elena Hall, visitors will be invited to drink sencha tea together.

Heir to the Issa-an sencha tea school, Osaka, which inherits the salon culture of the bunjin (literary figures) of the Edo period, TSUKUDA Shio has led various tea programmes including the high-level tea exchange as part of the G20 Osaka Summit 2019. He is a member of the international research project ‘Creative collaborations: salons and networks in Kyoto and Osaka 1780–1880’ (led jointly by the British Museum and Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto), and lectures at Kansai University.

Cost: £7-12