The Way of Tea in LA

Cha-do, the Japanese "Way of Tea", is neither ancient nor exotic, neither sacred nor profane. In fact, it is extremely ordinary, orderly and essential. In practice, it is "simply" making sure you have properly heated the water for the tea, literally cha-no-yu. In its atmosphere of heightened awareness and hospitality, host and guest ultimately transpose roles and unite. It is this very give-and-receive dynamic exchange that makes the world a wonderful place.

Friday, February 9, 2024

Blissful Tea With Sempo Sugihara and Zach Golden

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\ Zach’s View This Sunday, I am due to fly to Tokyo for my week-long vacation to Japan.  I am very excited about this for several reasons:  ...
Saturday, December 30, 2023

Kyoto Sweets and Tea Room Locations

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  https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?hl=en&mid=1Fw1t3ent1KSHdiBr_EXFca5Qldw&ll=35.033730455662%2C135.7698848292283&z=14 <ifra...
Thursday, August 25, 2022

Genshitsu Sen, Daisosho - Rotary Magazine - August 2022

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Monday, January 31, 2022

En Avant Garde: Furuta Oribe and Mavo!

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En Avant Garde Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan     Mike Murase, Ed. (Yale University Press, New Haven, 2003) Ma...
Friday, September 20, 2019

Tea Huts 'R' Us?

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As a 34 year practitioner of the Japanese tea "ceremony"  chanoyu , literally tea’s hot water, I naturally gravitate to opportuni...
Sunday, April 21, 2019

Sensei, Okeiko Domo Arigato Gozaimasu!

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Sensei, Okeiko Domo Arigato Gozaimasu! Reflections on Studying Chanoyu in Los Angeles with Sosei Matsumoto, Sensei By Lauren W. Deutsch...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

So What?!

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Like much of the social-cultural practices encountered by me during my first of 30 years practicing chanoyu  with a traditional master teach...
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Sochi, Instructor

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Lauren W. Deutsch
Los Angeles, CA, United States
Lauren Deutsch is the executive producer / director of Pacific Rim Arts (www.pacificrimarts.org), a multi-cultural / multi-discipline initiative through which to explore and promote traditional cultures in contemporary life. She is a contributing editor of Kyoto Journal and writes for numerous other scholarly and cultural print and online publications, as well as public radio and television productions. A student since 1985 of Sosei Matsumoto, sensei, Lauren was initiated as “Sochi” (her professional name) in 1997 by Sen Soshitsu, Hounsai, the XVth Grand Master of the Urasenke School of Tea in Kyoto, and licensed to be an instructor. Lauren can be reached at mailto:sochideutsch@gmail.com.
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