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A hand whisks matcha with a bamboo chasen in a pale ceramic bowl, with a dish of matcha powder and a bamboo scoop beside it (10 s muted loop). (video)

Katrin Bolovtsova, Pexels License Source

First frame of the hero loop: a chasen whisking matcha in a pale bowl.

Katrin Bolovtsova, Pexels License Source

Tea bushes under a tana shade canopy of black netting on a pipe frame at Hamadai tea garden, Kumiyama, Kyoto Prefecture (Uji tea area).

おいでやす千年の都, CC0 Source

Pickers hand-plucking bright young first-flush shoots on a hillside tea field in Minamiyamashiro, Kyoto Prefecture, with black-covered fields behind.

vera46, CC BY 2.0 Source

Flat, flaky dried tencha leaf heaped around the feed hole of a granite stone mill in Uji, Kyoto.

Derjochenmeyer, CC BY-SA 4.0 Source

A granite matcha stone mill lifted to show its grooved grinding face, tencha at the spindle and fresh green matcha piled around the base, Uji, Kyoto.

Derjochenmeyer, CC BY-SA 4.0 Source

Matcha being sifted through a fine mesh strainer into a white chawan, with a tin of matcha, a bamboo chashaku and a chasen behind.

HM_SHOT, Pexels License Source

A host in kimono sets bowls of matcha on the tatami for seated guests at a Kobori Enshu school tea gathering.

KuboBella, CC BY-SA 4.0 Source

Usucha (thin tea) seen from above: a black chawan of whisked matcha with a pale green froth.

cyclonebill from Copenhagen, Denmark, CC BY-SA 2.0 Source

Koicha (thick tea) being kneaded with a chasen into a glossy dark-green paste, no froth, at Ippodo Tea, New York. Colour toned down slightly from the original.

T.Tseng, CC BY 2.0 Source

A heaped spoon of vivid green matcha powder with loose powder scattered on a pale surface.

Evanhoever, CC BY-SA 4.0 Source

Neat, uniform rows of tea bushes in one planting at Chiran, Minami-Kyushu, Kagoshima.

Naokijp, CC BY-SA 4.0 Source

Uji region: the hillside tea fields of Ishidera in Wazuka, Kyoto Prefecture.

Saigen Jiro, CC0 Source

Kagoshima region: wide, flat tea fields with frost-protection fans at Chiran, Kagoshima.

690 Noda, CC BY 3.0 Source

Yame region: the great tea plantation of Yame, Fukuoka, rolling over low hills.

ワールドピース, CC BY-SA 4.0 Source

Nishio region: tea bushes growing under a tana shade canopy in Oma-cho, Nishio, Aichi.

Asturio Cantabrio, CC BY-SA 4.0 Source

A tatami room in Japan with a tokonoma alcove, hanging scroll, bonsai and shoji light.

Jens F, Unsplash License Source

Top-down view of a black bowl of whisked matcha, a used chasen on a white plate and a dish of matcha powder.

Alice Pasqual, Unsplash License Source

A woman in kimono performs temae, ladling hot water into a chawan beside a chasen and natsume, in a tea room in Kyoto.

Tiago Ebisui, Unsplash License Source

A hillside tea field and forested ridges seen from Koshigoe Pass on the Wazuka-Ide road (Kyoto Prefectural Route 321), Uji tea country.

ブルースパイダー, CC BY 4.0 Source

Two bowls of matcha with sweets set before shoji windows opening onto bamboo at Okochi Sanso garden, Arashiyama, Kyoto.

Benh LIEU SONG from Torcy, France, CC BY-SA 2.0 Source

Shizuoka: fresh green tea fields at Obuchi Sasaba, Fuji City, with Mount Fuji behind.

SHori, CC BY 4.0 Source

Close-up of a bamboo chasen showing its fine curled tines.

D-Kuru, CC BY-SA 4.0 Source

A black bowl of usucha with two small sweets on a tray, served beside the bamboo grove at Hokokuji Temple, Kamakura.

Iori Ikeda, Unsplash License Source

Farmers in Japan rolling back the shade cloth from tea bushes before the harvest of shaded leaf.

Aaron Armstrong, CC BY-SA 4.0 Source

A picker with bamboo baskets harvests shaded tea under a black shade canopy in Kami-machi, Nishio, Aichi.

Evelyn-rose, CC0 Source