Shigeru Uchida (born 1943), Ji'an tea house, at Ippodo Gallery

Lecture and Tea Ceremony with Tea Master Nagano Yoshitsugu, Ippodo Gallery
In-person program, June 28, 2022, 2-4pm

This special program is organized to complement Ippodo's current exhibition, Magic of the Tea Bowl, Volume 2. Nagano Yoshitsugu will first give a lecture, How to Experience the Sensations of a Tea Bowl, in which participants will learn the points of how to appreciate tea bowls while appreciating the tea bowls displayed in the gallery. In the second half of the program, each person will be able to choose a bowl of tea and drink powdered green tea prepared by Nagano sensei using that bowl.

Nagano Yoshitsugu, Japanese Tea Ritual Instructor and Professor of the Ueda Soko School, is the youngest person to be certified in the highest rank of the Ueda Soko School (USRJWT), which has been practiced in Hiroshima for 400 years. He received a BFA from the Faculty of Art in the Hiroshima City University in 2012. In 2019 he relocated to New York City, where he energetically promotes the aesthetics and spirituality of the Japanese Tea Ritual, which is rooted in Zen Buddhism. He also works to establish new styles of a modern Tea Ceremony that incorporates new expressions into the traditional rituals to create new ways of engaging with the Tea Ceremony.

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