SAND SPRINGS — The steady splash of flowing water pierced the long silence as Yumie Farringer poured a kettle while teaching a Japanese tea ceremony class at her home in Sand Springs. Farringer ...

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Tea Master Yoshitsugu Nagano teaches the Samurai Tea Ceremony Class, where students learn about the tradition, history, and formalities of a Japanese tea ceremony. The Buke (samurai) Tea Ceremony, or ...

TOKYO (AP) — Genshitsu Sen, a former Kamikaze pilot trainee who later promoted peace as a grand master of the Japanese tea ceremony, has died, officials said Thursday. He was 102. Sen had been ...

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Bowdoin’s Morita-Sensei celebrates Japanese culture by supplementing her students’ learning of the Japanese language with the complex yet rewarding art of sadō, the Japanese tea ceremony. Studying a ...

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Even though I am Japanese ethnically and by citizenship, I never felt deeply connected to my Japanese heritage while growing up in the United States.

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