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Reviving an 800-Year-Old Japanese Tea Farm
The city of Uji in Kyoto has been famed for tea for more than eight centuries, but much has been lost in the depths of that time. Now a group of locals are working to revive Asahien, one of Uji’s seven famed tea farms of the past, with plants discovered on the grounds of a city temple.
Matsubayashi contacted Ōgushi Takuji, head of the Tea Industry Research Division of the Kyoto Prefectural Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Technology Center, to introduce Isozaki. The Kōshōji hōjō —a room used by the head priest—holds a hanging scroll with a bird’s eye view painting of the temple by Mori Ippō, a painter active in the late nineteenth century. Banner photo: Matsubayashi Toshiyuki, at left, and Isozaki Endai speaking in front of tea seedlings planted on the hillside of the temple Kōshōji grounds.
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