This is Harashima-san’s best-selling sencha. The tea has a very good balance of mild taste and aroma. Good thirst-quenching refreshing taste. The remaining scent of the teacup has a sweet fruity aroma! Recommend for your daily consumption and for gift.
Handpicked gyokuro stone ground into powdered tea. The tea is full of sweet umami flavor. When you drink the tea, you will first feel its umami flavor filling your mouth, followed by astringency and bitterness in the aftertaste.
This tea is a temomicha, hand-rolled tea, with the entire process done by hand. Plenty of umami can be felt first, followed by a taste of soft astringency. It leaves an elegant aftertaste. Please enjoy the technique and taste of the master of Ikuta-ryu hand-rolling method.
Stylish simple ichimatsu pattern furoshiki wrapping for your gift.
Ichimatsu, a kabuki actor in the Edo period, wore this pattern’s hakama(formal skirt) and gained popularity among women. Since then this pattern is called ichimatsu.
This temomicha has a fresh taste as if you are tasting the fresh yabukita leaves, with a delicious umami on the tip of your tongue, and you can sense a touch of astringency and bitterness, too. This special tea is made by the organic tea farmer Hirayanagi-san who is the chairman of the Shizuoka Prefecture Tea Rolling Preservation Association and a master of the Ikuta-ryu tea-rolling method.
This tea is made from overlapping Tencha leaves. Tencha leaves are thin like flakes, but if they overlap, the tea farmers cannot grind the leaves well with a mill to make a matcha powder. So they are taken out. The tea leaves taken out have a lot of umami and taste like refined Uji gyokuro. Please brew it in the same way as gyokuro and enjoy.
This karigane tea is made from different blend from grade A product, a blend of saemidori, yabukita, and okumidori this season. Enjoy the savory taste and fruity aftertaste. Lighter water color and slight astringency and bitterness.
Hirayanagi-san, who is a master of hand-rolling tea making method, with his long time experience, is confident that the tea cultivar Harumidori best fits to grow in his tea fields. Please enjoy its gentle aroma and mild taste like early spring grasses. He aims to make tea that enriches the hearts of customers through his own hand-rolling technique.
This tea is the vein part of Tencha leaves, and is characterized by its light taste and pale watercolor. We recommend this tea for those who do not like the astringent and bitter taste of Japanese teas. Catechin content is low, so you will hardly notice any astringency or bitterness even if you brew it with hot water. A 120g(4.23oz) value pack. How about adding it to your daily tea?
