Tea Ceremony (Bontemae)

Here is the Japanese short form tea ceremony. It is a Zen (meditative) like experience that awakes all the senses. If you get the opportunity to smell and taste the powdered green tea, you will not be disappointed.

The ritual has specific movements and sequences. It is rather long to watch but this is know as the short or train ceremony. The long form can take 3 hours. The focus is to be in the moment so time really is not a consideration.

Hope you find it relaxing.

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[goldenpizza]

Bonteame is a special abbreviated macha tea ceremony

[paulsmithnic]

Mokichi Okada's words are very inspiring.

Who was he actually? Does anyone know?

Did he also practice tea ceremony?

[paulsmithnic]

Mokichi Okada's words are very inspiring.

Who was he actually? Anyone know?

[Kannon12]

First of all, there is a typo in the video and page.

The tea ceremony is called "bontemae", not "bonteame".

Bon means tray, temae means roughly "in front of your hand" or "the things you prepare", but is a synonym for "tea ceremony".

Bonteame would mean "Tray-hand-rain" or "Tray-hand-candy".

[Shirou]

ahh! I wanna taste it! soooo elegant it HAS to taste good. xD

[oeoek1]

Thank you very much for this movie, I never saw a bonteame done before.

[kbg39]

is this Omotesenke? Urasenke? i want to teach tea ceremony to foreigner...

[gardengeisha]

vary good