About Urasenke Tea Ceremony Experience in Hiroshima
'Chado', the way of tea, or tea ceremony is a Japanese culture, traditional art form where the guests and the hosts spend time together over some Matcha tea. Chado involves not only tea serving, but also presentation of the nature and great hospitality of the hosts. Here, at Tea Ceremony Experience in Hiroshima, you can enjoy the tea gathering of the historical and authentic Chado. Please come experience Chado and feel the harmony between people in the city of peace, Hiroshima.
Kay SOKAY Kaneko
Thank you for visiting this page. I am very happy that you are interested in the Japanese tea ceremony.
My name is Kay Kaneko. The tea name given by the 16th Grand Tea Master Zabosai is SOKAY. I am a Japanese tea ceremony instructor and my grandmother, my mother, and my daughter are also instructors. With over 40 years of experience in learning tea ceremony, I teach the local tea ceremony learners in Hiroshima every day, and at the same time, I am still learning from my teacher, and improving my skills.
In the tea ceremony, the hosts welcome the guests wholeheartedly and the guests accept the hospitality with gratitude and respect. This form of interaction between the hosts and guests has been shared and valued for over 500 years. While learning the form, improving one’s own heart is the difficult thing in the tea ceremony but also the interesting part. I have been in the world of tea ceremony for a long time out of the enjoyment of feeling the growth I make every day.
I will make my best effort so those of you who are coming from abroad can feel the fascination that I find in the tea ceremony. I will look forward to meeting everyone.
-Associate Professor of Urasenke Foundation
-Urasenke International Association Member
-Experience in tea ceremony: 44 years
-Teach total number of more than 1000 lessons in a year at my own place
-Held a tea gathering for the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni, when she visited Hiroshima for G7 summit in 2023.
We will welcome you!
Erika
Eri
Ayako
Reina
Yuki
We appear briefly in the video of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s visit to Japan during the 2023 G7 Summit in Hiroshima.
You can catch a quick glimpse of us around 3 seconds in, and again at 1 minute 23 seconds!
With the Prime Minister of Italy, Giorgia Meloni
My mother and grandmother. It was about 20years ago we went to a tea gathering together.
My mother, daughter, and me in Kyoto.