Japanese Tea Sets for Sale, Simple to Explicit! ~ Complete the original purpose of your Japanese tea garden by serving your guests tea with a traditional Japanese tea set! Don’t have a tea garden? Hire STONE CRAFT to build you one or just choose a style from the many available to compliment your homes décor.

While these beautiful tea pots are just generally to small for Americans “BIG” way of doing things, there is a wonderful method of entertain guests with these Japanese treasures.

Boil a standard American teapot full of water on the stove and pour it into a few of these tea pots, set each tea pot on a tea-candle (tea light) warmer with one different flavor of tea bag in each pot.

Not only does this create ambiance and selection for your guests, it also steeps the tea, scents the room, keeps it hot and makes a tea bag good for several cups rather than just one.

It’s a win-win for your guests and your pocketbook.

 

 

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The Traditional Japanese Tea garden begins with a path.  Your cares of the outside world are left behind at the entrance to the garden.  The journey down the gardens dewy path (or "roji"), brings you into a greater appreciation and awareness of nature, it mentally calms and prepares you for the tea ceremony in the inner garden. The Japanese tea garden was created as a place for privacy and the designers made good use of evergreen screens, bamboo hedges as well as fences and gates to create an environment of true intimacy.

Traditionally, At the end of the journey guests purified themselves by washing their hands and mouths in the "Tsukubai" or water basin before entering the tea house. The Tsukubai was fed from a bamboo pipe which also provided water for the tea. Gravel or small river stones were used to keep the mud down while large boulders were used for places to sit or kneel or place the tea set while washing.