Tea is never just tea.
It is a silent architecture of time, shaped through gesture, attention, and pause. Originating in ancient China as medicine and path, tea took root across Eastern cultures, where the tea ceremony evolved as a contemplative practice in which the everyday becomes intentional.
茶. Chá. Cha. Tea. Te. Té.
The tea plant —Camellia sinensis— traveled westward, where it adapted, blended, and reinvented itself.
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El té nunca es solo té.
Es una arquitectura silenciosa del tiempo, moldeada a través del gesto, la atención y la pausa. Originario de la antigua China como medicina y camino, el té se enraíza en las culturas de Oriente, donde la ceremonia evoluciona como una práctica contemplativa en la que lo cotidiano se vuelve intencional.
茶. Chá. Cha. Tea. Te. Té.
La planta del té —Camellia sinensis— cruza hacia Occidente, donde se adapta, se mezcla y se reinventa.
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Notes on tea w/
@temps.tea .
1. Black Raku tea bowl, The Met. Momoyama period (1573–1615), Japan.
2. ‘White’ by Kubo Shunman. Edo period (1615–1868), Japan.
3. Japanese tea ceremony objects, The Met. 12th–18th century, China and Japan.
4. ‘Hot Water – Tea Ceremony’ by David Bull. Contemporary work (born 1951), Japan.
5. Tea ceremony. 1890, Japan.
6. Chadogu from ‘The Ceremonial Tea Observance in Japan’ by Kozaburo Tamamura, published in 1907.
7. ‘Two women in a tea plantation picking leaves’ by Allan Cash. 1954, Mount Fuji, Japan.
8. ‘Tea Ceremony’, ukiyo-e by Kasamatsu Shiro. 1949, Japan.
9. Japan Kobe District tea ceremony (chado). 1920, Japan.
10. ‘Tea Things’ by Totoya Hokkei. 19th century, Japan.
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