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The origins of Japanese tea-drinking? -
03-06-2007, 05:45 PM
I'm not sure where this topic belongs, but anyway.
I've just learned that tea is "o-cha" in Japanese. Perhaps not so incidentally, tea in Portuguese is "chá" - I read somewhere that Portuguese merchants and missionaries carried out expeditions to Japan around the 17th-18th(?) Centuries.
I guess what I'm trying to ask is: to what extent is Japan's tea tradition imported (from Portugal) and to what extent has it been cultivated by the Japanese themselves?
Any information on this topic is much appreciated.
~annelie
"It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine as children do. And as we let our own lights shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others." -from the film Coach Carter
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