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What is a tea cultivar?

On 2011/10/12 By

If you are fairly knowledge about Japanese sencha tea, you may have heard the term “Yabukita”. Yabukita is a cultivated variety of camellia sinensis (tea plant) used to produce Japanese sencha. Almost 85% of the sencha produced in Japan is with this particular variety because it is said to have the best balance between hardiness [...]

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How is Japanese sencha tea hand-processed?

On 2011/10/12 By

There are two ways delicious sencha is produced: a hand rolling process (temomi) and a machine rolling process [...]

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Shading techniques

On 2011/10/12 By

More info coming soon on shading techniques…

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Where do you get your information?

On 2011/10/12 By

Unless a specific source is cited, most of the information on this website comes directly from us (the farmers: Akky and Matsu) and translated from the Japanese by Ian, our go-to guy for everything English. (Yes, Ian does feel strange writing about himself in the third person.) Find out more about the team here!

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Does your Matcha powder contain sugar or any other ingredients other than tea leaves?

On 2011/10/12 By

Does your Matcha powder contain sugar or any other ingredients other than tea leaves? Our matcha is 100% tea leaves. Absolutely nothing added. Matcha is made with tencha leaves, shaded for 4 weeks and grown in the spring from either Gokou plants or Uji Hikari plants (matcha-specific cultivars). Tencha, in addition for being shaded longer [...]

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What are the differences between different sencha types?

On 2011/10/12 By

The differences between sencha types can be divided into several categories: A) Harvest season (Spring, Summer, Autumn) Spring teas are the most expensive (Kabuse Sencha, Sencha of the Spring Sun, Sencha of the Wind, Sencha of the Earth). This is the season that the tea plant has its natural burst of growth drawing up nutrients [...]

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How many cups of tea do I get with a 100-gram bag of tea leaves?

On 2011/10/12 By

Obubu recommends a 5 gram or about 1 tablespoon worth of tea leaves each time you steep the tea leaves. Using a standard boiling water steeping technique, this produce about 1 teacup (6 oz. or 180 ml) worth of tea, but remember, unlike other types of tea, you steep green tea for very short periods [...]

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Distance from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant

Kyoto Tea Radiation Testing

On 2011/07/30 By

Test Results The following table lists the results of testing by the Kyoto Prefecture Tea Association (website in Japanese) for radiation contamination in tea leaves produced in Kyoto. Radiation contamination has not been detected in Kyoto tea leaves. Production Area Tea Type Radioactive Iodine Radioactive Cesium Test Date Uji City Sencha (fresh leaves) Not Detected [...]

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do you ship to australia?

Do you ship to Australia?

On 2011/07/18 By

Yes we do! (^,^)/ We’ve had several inquiries about this prompting this FAQ, but we have shipped to Australia several times without any problems. The import regulations for green tea do not require quarantine or inspection (see below link) http://www.aqis.gov.au/icon32/asp/ex_casecontent.asp?intNodeId=8008657&intCommodityId=15146&Types=none&WhichQuery=Go+to+full+text&intSearch=1&LogSessionID=0 For the Sakura Tea, it is classified as Herbal Teas, and you should not have [...]

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