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Speaking of which, just saw this one the other day. "If the tea becomes real, we become real. When we are able to truly meet the tea, at that very moment we are truly alive." - Thich Nhat Hanh https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3598040063556832&id=319228401438031 But it’s not just te...

Speaking of which, just saw this one the other day.

"If the tea becomes real, we become real. When we are able to truly meet the tea, at that very moment we are truly alive." - Thich Nhat Hanh


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:o Oops! Sorry. My bad. I saw John's photo next to the article so I thougt... Sorry, John_B Hope so. If so, I'll post it here! (I think the writer is Guy Munsch. Didn't see his email but posted a request for more info. about the proverb in the comments below the article. Since he is a published tea ...

Maybe John_B , the writer, can answer your question. Question for you 'spiritual' tea drinkers. While looking up the definition of the word "Chajin" (referred to in a Bok post on the Ode to Kyusu thread https://www.teaforum.org/viewtopic.php?f=20&t=17&start=345), I encountered this reference to a te...

Ahh! That’s good to know! Thank you. I’d say, if the lower lip had followed the upper lip up then that’d be Chinese. This one looks 70-80% Japanese to me. :lol: But then... look at this picture - Japanese or Chinese? ;) ./download/file.php?id=5587 It’s an Yixing from the late ROC period ;) The guys ...

I think so. It reminds me of the time when Japanese started learning to make teapot from Chinese. The spout tip is definitely Japanese. Four sure, as is the lid knob. My point was just that the overall proportions are nothing typical Japanese. But classic proportions as many 1000s of antiques had be...

I’d say, if the lower lip had followed the upper lip up then that’d be Chinese. This one looks 70-80% Japanese to me.

Bok wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 15, 2020 5:20 am

Tor wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 15, 2020 5:14 am

The spout tip is definitely Japanese.

But then... look at this picture - Japanese or Chinese?

The spout tip is definitely Japanese.

I guess Gafu's interest in Chinese style probably dated back quite some time. This's his teapot that I bought in 2015. He didn't have his own kiln back then.

@Noonie

If that’s 80s F1, you may call it a “flaw” but truth is millions of people had been happily using it.

I didn't know about the pH balancing step! I recently cleaned the inside of some of my pots with baking soda, and have found the resulting water made from these pots tasted a little off. I'm afraid of using vinegar though because of its strong smell. Do you think a drop of lime juice would work? Wo...

The ones I bought are specifically designed to be used in low humidity uses like for tea and coffee. I see. That’s the kind that comes with its own moisturizer. Since you also mentioned coffee, there’s a blog post that is worth reading. https://coffeeadastra.com/2019/03/26/some-strategies-to-keep-y...

The O2 absorber and silica gel are not supposed to be used together as the absorber needs some humidity to work. I don’t know why your bag was crumbled up, but when using absorber alone the volume inisde the bag shouldn’t change. The ones I bought are specifically designed to be used in low humidit...

Anyways, I split a 100g bag of tea into 2 50g bags using a laminated storage bag and added an oxygen absorber + silica gel package. I don't really know much about oxygen absorbers but the ones I bought said they absorbed 100cc of pure oxygen (500cc of air) over a period of 4-5 hours and that it was...

Kagoshima Horiguchi Seicha Tea. Please enjoy!