Hmm, very very interesting. There is definitely value to this ritualized activity. I don't think this is how tea is drunk normally in Japan, but I am happy that I have the choice to either perform this ritual or not. I am under no illusions, I would not like living in Japan: I can barely understand my own culture's etiquette, and I would spend all my time there stressed that I would commit a heinous faux pas. But Japan is very interesting to learn about, and is extremely pretty to watch from behind my screen. It may even be worth a visit- people tend to give tourists a pass, especially if you can tell they're trying to be respectful. I'm glad that I live in the age of the internet: I can learn about other cultures without annoying them with my accidental rudeness.
@Katie C Oh. I guess I misunderstood. I thought it was a very formalized way of drinking tea for fancy occasions. I thought it was compulsory and rude to question: like church or weddings or baby showers or graduations or The Pledge of Allegiance or table manners. Why do I have to have my fork in a certain hand? Why is it rude not to make a promise to a country I don't really like? Why do we have to get a sunburn while listening to a bunch of people say 'inspirational' things about the future? Why can't a baby shower be just a lunch and gift-giving? Why can't a wedding just be a big dinner with 5 minute speeches from the bride and groom? Why do I have to listen to an old man try to convince a crowd that 'being gay is a betrayal of god's love'? I didn't realize that a tea ceremony was something that was actually enjoyed. I thought it was something that was rude not to do at special occasions. I guess that makes it more like dancing or singing. I like dancing and singing waaaay better than church.
strange... I've found this video rather stressful... maybe due to so much procedure where one could easily do wrong and offend the other or the tea oozing into the base of the whisk making it dirty while the guest is drinking still, thank you for sharing this video, really appreciated!
just as in any culture, minor mishaps would surely be forgiven by guests generosity. the rituals are there partially because of the known and unknown and unforeseeable happens. but ultimately, we should let go of our perfectionism in expectations and enjoy as it unfolds in front of us. it is just like any dance and choreography, except with more commonly agreed meanings and symbols.
the whole point is to be able to do it with perfection without thinking, its to cultivate zen, sure mistakes happen but the point is to do it without excess motion, calmly and as perfectly as you can.
The tea Ceremony or more accurately Sado , literally " The path of tea" is based on Zen philosophy and discipline , in which achieving perfection is never the aim, but the consequence . Whether the procedure in preparing tea is perfect is irrelevant, what matters is the spirit or state of mind in which the Teishu or master prepares the tea and the way the guests receive it and if there is a communion between master and guest through tea and procedure and also between each guest and himself or herself, communion between guest and the tea room, the garden around it and ultimately the whole universe . This is what the Path of Tea and Zen are about . Stop thinking , stop analyzing and start feeling. If you find the video stressful it is probably because there is something about YOU not about the Video which makes it stressful . Yes there are countless mishaps in the way the young lady prepares the tea , and she clearly is not connected at all with what she is doing and only does it as a form of performance , which is precisely what this video is about . This is not a real Chaikai or Chaji , this is just a demonstration , so of course this is not meant to create an emotional response, just a visual spectacle for the eye, not for the brain or heart or soul . I feel neither stressed nor delighted by this video,, first of all because this is just a video, i am not in the room , this is not an actual authentic Chanoyu ceremony , this is not a real master preparing it , just a young lady repeating mechanically what she learned , and i can't even smell or taste the tea and the Wagashi cakes or sweets , so nothing is stressful about this video . It would like watching a movie and feel genuinely bad about the situation. This is a movie, all it can do is entertain me , make me think maybe , but i am conscious enough to separate fiction from reality, and emotions can only be based on reality/ It is very dangerous to have genuine emotion caused by fiction . I can understand people who cry when they watch a real documentary , but i really do not understand how anybody can be genuinely scared or cry when they watch a fiction . Maybe because i have started learning tea when i was 3 (this is my husband's account, i am Japanese). And because I studied later on for 4 years at Eiheiji a Zen monastery , mindfulness (though i never heard the concept or the word until very recently, we just called it Zen) is something i have cultivated from a very young age and is naturally part of my life today . To be stressed means that you are not controlling your emotion but letting your emotion control you, which is very dangerous for others but also for you . The body is directly linked to the brain, if you do not try to control your brain (at least it's activity) by focusing on what you do and what you feel and how you react to things, then eventually your body catches up . Which is what is translated in western medicine as Psychosomatic pain , whether it is physical like getting a rash or an ulcer from stress or anxiety or psychological like getting depressed though you are not biologically inclined to depression . My tea master was and still is my mother . I have studied 1 hour a day from age three to age 6, 2 hours a day from age 6 to age 12 and then 3 hours every two days until i graduated high school including once a week with her master and with at least a 5 consecutive hours lesson every month to create a full Chaji which is a complete tea ceremony, including two types of tea , preceded by the preparation of the brazier to boil water naturally with coal, itself preceded by a meal which we have to prepare from scratch. And on top of that you need to learn the decoration of the alcove in the tea room with a season and occasion appropriate flower arrangement, decorative props and learn how to select appropriate and harmoniously combined tea utensils. And this is only for the form , the spirit behind it is what takes decades upon decades to learn, and which is why in a real tea ceremony, you are constantly focused on what you do and how you do it, but you have rehearsed it already hundreds of thousands of times before , so you just go through the motion and though your brain is focused, you also do not think of anything at all and you are in a sort of conscious and very lucid trance . This is Mindfulness or Zen for me. This is why you can not be stressed by anything , because you have learned how to control your brain activity and not let it affect you more than you wish . This is why people sometimes have a hard time understand why Japanese express their emotions so rarely and so awkwardly. Rarely, because we are not taught to do it, as we consider it childish or childlike, and awkwardly because expressing emotion in front of strangers is the equivalent of asking a westerner to get fully undressed in front of strangers. Ironically enough, us Japanese have zero problem getting completely undressed in front of complete strangers , we do it at public bathhouses all the time and many of these houses are mixed so we do not even have any gender issue. Baring our body is nothing in comparison to bearing our mind . I feel more impressed and a bit awkward by my husband's ability (he is Western) to talk about himself so honestly and so directly to complete strangers and his incapacity or embarrassment to get physically naked in front of people who are naked too, or even at the doctor's office . I think it has to do with culture and also a bit of religion , though we are both atheists , it is clear that his judeo-christian background and my Shinto Buddhist one have a lot to do with how we are . Adam and Even are never depicted fully naked in western iconography and we have the Shunga culture in Japan and a penis festival and a type of cake made to represent women's breast which in the old days, Japanese used to offer to daughters when they reached puberty (read, when they had their first period). Western philosophers discuss the importance of the self, while eastern ones emphasize how unimportant and irrelevant the self is and how only the collective matters . Damn that was mighty long. Anyway the only thing that caught my attention on this video , was the fact that the young lady's kimono's undergarment called Juban is showing at the sleeves , which is a VERY bad breach of kimono etiquette . If someone is that careless about the way they dress, then there is no way the way they prepare the tea is going to be focused , and therefore well executed .
@@morganolfursson2560 wow!!! thankyou!! Wonderful explanation of mindfulness and care in doing something....you are RIGHT, most foreigners seeing this feel nervousness and stress...but we are only looking at it as a one time "performance" on a cultural activity. To do it and learn it over a long time is a different thing entirely. Thankyou!
Very educational!!! Interesting. I'd like to go to one of these actually. I always thought there was tea leaf reading involved. (Must have seen something on telly like that). Anyway, that looks like some very tasty tea. Never seen any like that before.
*Hostess squeezes stick with red napkin* Pfffft That didn’t purify it.... In all seriousness this was enjoyable to watch. Kudos for taking time to train and offer such a cool experience.
I want that Obi so bad... the circle of chrysanthemums one the younger girl is wearing. Its perfect... If anyone knows where to get one, please tell me!!!!
Ika Musume if that is the case then they are successful, kinda,whether their actions for relaxing or the whole process being boring and time consuming I might fall asleep.
it looks like a thick spinach soup. preparing matcha (without the ceremony) i am never able to get the foam that small and smooth, though. mine looks more like a green cappuccino. :)
It's rather refreshing to hear the Japanese speaking actual English instead of Google Translate tier of gibberish. They apparently have an immense difficulty to learn other languages.
Why do you expect them to have to speak another language? Just as you, English speaking, might explain your own profession to a foreign person aren't expected to speak their language...
@@thrpins8430 Peter was just pointing out your lack of class and intelligence. Don't be upset. Maybe in your next life as a tea bag, you will understand.
No pressure, just a bunch of silent people watching every single thing you do.
lol yes
Do you have the ability to be silent while someone else
shows you something......for
10 minutes......it's
called .....learning.
Meanwhile in Yorkshire:
"One lump or two, luv?"
It's amazing to see something practiced that has been ritualized for so long. I wish I had this kind of discipline.
Their hand movements and everything are so relaxing
In her mind "Don't mess up, Don't mess up, Don't mess up, Don't mess up, Don't mess up"
me while watching her
yep! Its like NO PRESSURE AT ALL
naah shes in the moment
This was lovely and educational, thank you for sharing!
Hmm, very very interesting. There is definitely value to this ritualized activity. I don't think this is how tea is drunk normally in Japan, but I am happy that I have the choice to either perform this ritual or not.
I am under no illusions, I would not like living in Japan: I can barely understand my own culture's etiquette, and I would spend all my time there stressed that I would commit a heinous faux pas. But Japan is very interesting to learn about, and is extremely pretty to watch from behind my screen. It may even be worth a visit- people tend to give tourists a pass, especially if you can tell they're trying to be respectful.
I'm glad that I live in the age of the internet: I can learn about other cultures without annoying them with my accidental rudeness.
@Katie C Oh. I guess I misunderstood. I thought it was a very formalized way of drinking tea for fancy occasions. I thought it was compulsory and rude to question: like church or weddings or baby showers or graduations or The Pledge of Allegiance or table manners.
Why do I have to have my fork in a certain hand? Why is it rude not to make a promise to a country I don't really like? Why do we have to get a sunburn while listening to a bunch of people say 'inspirational' things about the future? Why can't a baby shower be just a lunch and gift-giving? Why can't a wedding just be a big dinner with 5 minute speeches from the bride and groom? Why do I have to listen to an old man try to convince a crowd that 'being gay is a betrayal of god's love'?
I didn't realize that a tea ceremony was something that was actually enjoyed. I thought it was something that was rude not to do at special occasions. I guess that makes it more like dancing or singing. I like dancing and singing waaaay better than church.
I found this video to be rather relaxing. I liked it.
this is absolutely wonderful how they are so gentle. I would break the cup in one second
Fascinating! Many thanks for this upload.
You will never find such discipline anywhere else in the world...only in the Japanese culture. Lovely. Thank you for sharing
Tea ceremony is from China.
@@peterhamlinhamlin8908 Chinese version is far less ceremonial.
both are stupid. you learn more from the people who actually make the tea. they are sweating their ass off so these clowns can perform this ceremony
Beautiful thank you For sharing this
Thank you for uploading this. Very interesting and lovely to watch. I was wondering why they turned the bowl
strange... I've found this video rather stressful...
maybe due to so much procedure where one could easily do wrong and offend the other
or the tea oozing into the base of the whisk making it dirty while the guest is drinking
still, thank you for sharing this video, really appreciated!
Nelson Baietti I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels this way.
just as in any culture, minor mishaps would surely be forgiven by guests generosity. the rituals are there partially because of the known and unknown and unforeseeable happens. but ultimately, we should let go of our perfectionism in expectations and enjoy as it unfolds in front of us. it is just like any dance and choreography, except with more commonly agreed meanings and symbols.
the whole point is to be able to do it with perfection without thinking, its to cultivate zen, sure mistakes happen but the point is to do it without excess motion, calmly and as perfectly as you can.
The tea Ceremony or more accurately Sado , literally " The path of tea" is based on Zen philosophy and discipline , in which achieving perfection is never the aim, but the consequence . Whether the procedure in preparing tea is perfect is irrelevant, what matters is the spirit or state of mind in which the Teishu or master prepares the tea and the way the guests receive it and if there is a communion between master and guest through tea and procedure and also between each guest and himself or herself, communion between guest and the tea room, the garden around it and ultimately the whole universe . This is what the Path of Tea and Zen are about . Stop thinking , stop analyzing and start feeling. If you find the video stressful it is probably because there is something about YOU not about the Video which makes it stressful .
Yes there are countless mishaps in the way the young lady prepares the tea , and she clearly is not connected at all with what she is doing and only does it as a form of performance , which is precisely what this video is about . This is not a real Chaikai or Chaji , this is just a demonstration , so of course this is not meant to create an emotional response, just a visual spectacle for the eye, not for the brain or heart or soul .
I feel neither stressed nor delighted by this video,, first of all because this is just a video, i am not in the room , this is not an actual authentic Chanoyu ceremony , this is not a real master preparing it , just a young lady repeating mechanically what she learned , and i can't even smell or taste the tea and the Wagashi cakes or sweets , so nothing is stressful about this video . It would like watching a movie and feel genuinely bad about the situation. This is a movie, all it can do is entertain me , make me think maybe , but i am conscious enough to separate fiction from reality, and emotions can only be based on reality/ It is very dangerous to have genuine emotion caused by fiction . I can understand people who cry when they watch a real documentary , but i really do not understand how anybody can be genuinely scared or cry when they watch a fiction . Maybe because i have started learning tea when i was 3 (this is my husband's account, i am Japanese). And because I studied later on for 4 years at Eiheiji a Zen monastery , mindfulness (though i never heard the concept or the word until very recently, we just called it Zen) is something i have cultivated from a very young age and is naturally part of my life today . To be stressed means that you are not controlling your emotion but letting your emotion control you, which is very dangerous for others but also for you . The body is directly linked to the brain, if you do not try to control your brain (at least it's activity) by focusing on what you do and what you feel and how you react to things, then eventually your body catches up . Which is what is translated in western medicine as Psychosomatic pain , whether it is physical like getting a rash or an ulcer from stress or anxiety or psychological like getting depressed though you are not biologically inclined to depression .
My tea master was and still is my mother . I have studied 1 hour a day from age three to age 6, 2 hours a day from age 6 to age 12 and then 3 hours every two days until i graduated high school including once a week with her master and with at least a 5 consecutive hours lesson every month to create a full Chaji which is a complete tea ceremony, including two types of tea , preceded by the preparation of the brazier to boil water naturally with coal, itself preceded by a meal which we have to prepare from scratch. And on top of that you need to learn the decoration of the alcove in the tea room with a season and occasion appropriate flower arrangement, decorative props and learn how to select appropriate and harmoniously combined tea utensils. And this is only for the form , the spirit behind it is what takes decades upon decades to learn, and which is why in a real tea ceremony, you are constantly focused on what you do and how you do it, but you have rehearsed it already hundreds of thousands of times before , so you just go through the motion and though your brain is focused, you also do not think of anything at all and you are in a sort of conscious and very lucid trance . This is Mindfulness or Zen for me. This is why you can not be stressed by anything , because you have learned how to control your brain activity and not let it affect you more than you wish .
This is why people sometimes have a hard time understand why Japanese express their emotions so rarely and so awkwardly. Rarely, because we are not taught to do it, as we consider it childish or childlike, and awkwardly because expressing emotion in front of strangers is the equivalent of asking a westerner to get fully undressed in front of strangers. Ironically enough, us Japanese have zero problem getting completely undressed in front of complete strangers , we do it at public bathhouses all the time and many of these houses are mixed so we do not even have any gender issue. Baring our body is nothing in comparison to bearing our mind . I feel more impressed and a bit awkward by my husband's ability (he is Western) to talk about himself so honestly and so directly to complete strangers and his incapacity or embarrassment to get physically naked in front of people who are naked too, or even at the doctor's office .
I think it has to do with culture and also a bit of religion , though we are both atheists , it is clear that his judeo-christian background and my Shinto Buddhist one have a lot to do with how we are . Adam and Even are never depicted fully naked in western iconography and we have the Shunga culture in Japan and a penis festival and a type of cake made to represent women's breast which in the old days, Japanese used to offer to daughters when they reached puberty (read, when they had their first period). Western philosophers discuss the importance of the self, while eastern ones emphasize how unimportant and irrelevant the self is and how only the collective matters .
Damn that was mighty long.
Anyway the only thing that caught my attention on this video , was the fact that the young lady's kimono's undergarment called Juban is showing at the sleeves , which is a VERY bad breach of kimono etiquette . If someone is that careless about the way they dress, then there is no way the way they prepare the tea is going to be focused , and therefore well executed .
@@morganolfursson2560 wow!!! thankyou!! Wonderful explanation of mindfulness and care in doing something....you are RIGHT, most foreigners seeing this feel nervousness and stress...but we are only looking at it as a one time "performance" on a cultural activity. To do it and learn it over a long time is a different thing entirely. Thankyou!
So relaxing!
I love tea and Japan.
Fascinating
“ AINT NOBODY GOT TIME FOR DAT”😂
Beautiful!!!!💜💜🙏
If you are raised on discipline you will go long ways in life.
Hellzyead pope Benedict isn't dead yet lol
Very interesting
I need captions!!!
I like the adaptation for sitting at a table i was wondering how i was going to pull this off with my western style apartment thank you for this.
It's so inspiring and beautiful to watch this very relaxing but very hard ! Thank you for this video ! 🍚
These people have more discipline anybody ever seen
Merci infiniment.
Yes,it's called discipline...Some
people even learn!
I love matcha tea
Samurai Jack!
Francisco Ceja ✊
Very educational!!! Interesting. I'd like to go to one of these actually. I always thought there was tea leaf reading involved. (Must have seen something on telly like that). Anyway, that looks like some very tasty tea. Never seen any like that before.
yes i agree
Japanese and Chinese tea rituals differ! I think leaf reading is a Chinese thing, but I'm not sure.
*Hostess squeezes stick with red napkin*
Pfffft That didn’t purify it....
In all seriousness this was enjoyable to watch. Kudos for taking time to train and offer such a cool experience.
wake me up when it's ready
smasher 71 😂😂😂😂🤣
woooow i can never do that
who left a dislike! >:(
Uncultured swine, that's who.
The young lady is just so gorgeous
Kyut nung takure
NO PRESSURE PEOPLE, DONT MESS UP!
WOW that's a long time to drink a cup of tea! But I understand what the tea ceremony means to the Japanese!
I want that Obi so bad... the circle of chrysanthemums one the younger girl is wearing. Its perfect...
If anyone knows where to get one, please tell me!!!!
I read somewhere that this ceremony represents foreplay.
Would it be rude if I fall asleep during the ceremony?
Of course it would be. But in your defense, the true main point of the entire ceremony is to provide ASMR tingles, therefore making you feel relaxed.
Ika Musume
if that is the case then they are successful, kinda,whether their actions for relaxing or the whole process being boring and time consuming I might fall asleep.
lol u r so funny.
Redwan Hasan
its a ceremony
The only thing I didn't like is the picture with the tiger since we now know how they're drugged and mistreated so these pictures can be taken.
Helgali japah
Looks like a soup
it looks like a thick spinach soup. preparing matcha (without the ceremony) i am never able to get the foam that small and smooth, though. mine looks more like a green cappuccino. :)
No. Politely.
It's rather refreshing to hear the Japanese speaking actual English instead of Google Translate tier of gibberish. They apparently have an immense difficulty to learn other languages.
Ika Musume just as people who speak English do.
Why do you expect them to have to speak another language? Just as you, English speaking, might explain your own profession to a foreign person aren't expected to speak their language...
So what's the purpose ,is there a motive, n they use red , why, I'm curious.
The purpose of this ceromony is the relax and show kindness, it is basically a small type of meditation you do before drinking the tea.
This is vary relaxing
But at the same time
I have a mind for speed and efficiency and I fking loseing my shit watching this😄
We understand.
No patience.
No spelling.
No education.
No mind.
@@peterhamlinhamlin8908 ok boomer
@@thrpins8430 Peter was just pointing out your lack of class and intelligence. Don't be upset. Maybe in your next life as a tea bag, you will understand.
The Japanese are so far ahead
i dont like japanese tea ,but the people r good they
!
This is too much for my life just let me drink the dang tea!!! Lol
take 1 hour to make a cup tea. 1 hour i can make hundreds liter of tea
It's not a purely practical activity. If you just want tea, this isn't the way to make it.
Quando cazzo lo bevete sto tè?