JAPANESE TEA ARTS HOUSE --- THE FUHUI TEMPLE
Chinese tea
and tea culture, which relate closely to the origination and development of
Japanese tea arts, boast the deepest effect on Japan. Tea arts are one of
the typical features in Japanese tea culture yet the beginning of which
cannot be isolated from the effect of Chinese culture.
Along with the
spread of Buddhism, Chinese tea and tea culture immigrated into Japan from
Zhejiang Province. A large number of Japanese officers and knowledgeable
monks were escorted to various famous Buddhism sites to study from the Tang
Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty. Besides the technology of tea growing and tea
boiling, they introduced traditional Chinese tea ideal to Japan. Therefore
tea arts began to be carried forward in Japan and eventually tea art was
incorporated into Japanese art forms and spiritual meaning.
There are
three tea rooms in the Fuhui Temple of the TenFu tea Museum named Dedicate
Pavilion, Simple Pavilion and Respected Pavilion, respectively representing
afferent times. Tea artists who have received Japanese tea arts training
perform Japanese tea arts there.
