Yasuharu Matsumoto of Kyoto Obubu Tea Plantations will be in London late September and giving a lecture on Japanese tea from the perspective of a tea farmer. From experience, we can say that Matsu is very entertaining, and the knowledge he provides as a farmer...

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Kyoto Obubu Tea Farms has a mission to bring Japanese Tea to the world and help spread Japanese tea culture and its centuries-long values of harmony and peace. Not only have we welcomed visitors from around the world to learn more about and enjoy Japanese tea...

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The Kinezuka family business has won the 44th Award for Japan Agriculture, Bridging Food Division. Held by NHK and national Japan Agriculture organization, they competed with farmers and agricultural groups from across Japan. From the time my father first started farming tea without pesticides 39...

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Hello everyone. Creha is open from 1pm today. Please stop by our shop if you have time. The 13th Annual Japan National Black Tea Summit ended and our owner Okamoto has returned from a business trip to Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture. Next year, the summit will...

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Hello everyone, Creha is open from 1pm as usual. Please stop by if you have time. Today we are having a study session on black tea “Mellow Umegashima”. Produced in the deep mountains of Shizuoka city, Shizuoka prefecture, black tea of Umegashima is mellow and...

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Shop Here for 2015 Shincha Tea Shincha season is on its way this year. This year marks our 39th year of the tea picking event we have been holding to share the beautiful shincha green tea field. We are expecting people from different parts of...

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We had a booth at World Tea Farms Festival in Wazuka, Kyoto for two days. There are many young tea farmers working and learning from each other in Wazuka. There seem no abandoned tea farms there. That’s wonderful, but I hate to say that it is not the...

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The tea fields have become bright yellow-green as they are blanketed by new leaves of the first flush shincha. Last night, we talked to the representative of the grower's group about purchasing this year's shincha tea leaves.

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[tabs style=”boxed”] [tab title=”Introduction”]Based in the mountains behind the city of Fujieda in Shizuoka Prefecture.[/tab] [tab title=”The People”] Toshiaki Kinezuka President and farmer Ayumi Kinezuka Vice president and business manager Tamiko Kinezuka Shipping manager [/tab] [tab title=”Products”][product_category category=”obubu” per_page=”50″ columns=”4″ orderby=”price” order=”desc”][/tab] [tab title=”Blog”]Blog content...

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Yunomi.us: Japanese black tea expert visited?another one of our partners, the Kinezuka family (NaturaliTea), in March 2011, and wrote a fairly long post about it. We'll be translating soon, but enjoy the photos in the meantime!

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The Kinezuka family head, Toshiaki Kinezuka, has been farming tea organically for nearly four decades and is one of Japan’s pioneers in the field. With nearly 30 other farmers in the Fujieda region of Shizuoka Prefecture, he formed Hito to Nou, Shizen wo Tsunagu Kai...

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Day two of the Tea Picking Event held by the Kinezuka family on April 27-28, 2013, focused on the actual picking of tea leaves. These tea leaves were then turned into the Organic Handpicked Midori. But before we get into the tea picking… See Day...

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