Tea Ceremony: Explore the unique Japanese tradition of sharing tea

by Shozo Sato

Explore one of Japan's most beautiful traditions while entertaining your family and friends!

Tea Explore the unique Japanese tradition of sharing tea is an exciting and fun way to introduce Asian culture to kids. Readers will learn all the steps for performing a traditional Japanese tea ceremony.

With this book kids will be able The Asian Arts & Crafts for Creative Kids series is the first series, aimed at readers ages 7-12, that provides a fun and educational introduction to Asian culture and art. Through hands-on projects, readers will explore each art--engaging in activities to gain a better understanding of each form.

Genres: Tea, Japan, Nonfiction

64 pages, Hardcover

First published July 15, 2004

About the author

Shōzō Satō was an artist, author, calligrapher, playwright, and a professor emeritus of the College of Art and Design at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. He was the founder and former director of Japan House, and a former artist-in-residence at the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.
He was an internationally renowned master of Japanese traditional arts, such as Ikebana, Japanese Calligraphy, Sumi-e, Japanese Aesthetics, Japanese Traditional Dance, and Japanese Tea Ceremony. He was also a visionary theater director, most known for adapting Western classics into a traditional Japanese Kabuki style.

Reviews

[Wes Martin · Rating 3 out of 5]

While I thought this was a children's book when I got it, and while it might be ostensibly written for children, Tea Ceremony by Shozo Sato is a good introduction into the Japanese tea ceremony that includes a light background with important figures in the development of the ceremony. Sato gives step-by-step instructions on how to perform a tea ceremony which were more detailed than I was expecting, and gives alternatives to these when performing in a modern western-style house. Recommended.

[Kathy · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book does not seem to be arts and crafts for creative kids. The language and intricacy seem geared to high school or adults. I was misguided by the title. I thought it would be something a child/kid could do on their own, a modified version.
I will modify it myself for my grandkids while doing our Japan unit.
It was fun to learn about the gong which commences the process, my husband found a gong sound on his phone,yay.
Also, the sweets were a nice discovery.

[Stefan J. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is such a sweet introduction to the tea ceremony for kids, I really enjoyed it! I think it would be an ideal selection for a teacher looking for a fun class activity to teach kids about Japanese cultural arts.

[Nidhi Srivastava · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's good for kids. I guess? Directions may be a bit complicated to follow, not that I bothered. The whole thing can be read in 2 hours, so it's fun.