Chado lessons of Urasenke tradition at all levels are offered.

Continuing Study
Students are expected to take a lesson every week. If you are interested in becoming a Tea student, I invite you to observe a class. Please Contact Me for the inquiry.

Curriculum: Level of studies to be offered
BEGINNER LEVEL
1. 入門　NYUMON introductory
2. 小習　KONARAI basic practices including charcoal procedures
3. 茶箱　CHABAKO chabako (tea box) practices

INTERMEDIATE LEVEL
1. 茶通箱　Satsubako
2. 唐物　　Karamono
3. 台天目　Daitenmoku
4. 盆点　　Bondate
5. 和巾点　Wakindate

UPPER LEVEL
1. 行之行台子　Gyo-no-gyo-daisu
2. 大円草　　　Daien-so
3. 真之行台子　Shin-no-gyo-daisu
4. 大円真　　　Daien-shin

INSTRUCTOR CERTIFICATION
茶名　　CHAMEI Second-degree instructor
準教授　JUNKYOJU First-degree instructor

Extracurricular Study
座禅 ZAZEN
Zazen is the most important part of our study, and we practice Zazen with regard to Tea. Please click Here regarding to our Zazen practice.

茶事 CHAJI (Private Tea Function)
Training tea students to be able to conduct Chaji is one of my main purposes of teaching. Chaji comprehends all aspects of Chanoyu. It lasts about 4 hours, including serving meals, charcoal procedures, thick tea session and thin tea session. The thick tea session is the central focus of Chaji, and everything else is an effort toward offering the best thick tea you can make for the guests. In the Chaji exercise, we practice different roles, the host, the assistant to the host, the guests, and the kitchen crew.

灰形 HAIGATA (Ash-form making for the tea brazier)

七事式 SHICHIJISHIKI（Tea training group exercises conducted by five/or more participants)

着付け Kitsuke (Kimono dressing)
Wearing Kimono is one of the essential elements in the tearoom. Traditionally, tea students who do not know how to wear Kimono learn Kimono dressing from their teacher or their senior fellow students.

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Tea is a unique complex culture fostered in Japan. Tea is deep and it involves so many aspects of daily life and Arts, such as architecture, paintings, calligraphy, flower arrangement, culinary art, literature, craftsmanship of woodworking, textile, pottery, lacquer art, ironwork and masonry, philosophy of Tea, Ying and Yang theory in Tea, and so on. Followings are some of many subjects that we study.

千家十職　Arts and craftsmanship of tea utensils by Ten artisans, purveyors to the Sen tea family (scroll mounting maker, bamboo craftsman, pouch maker, brazier maker and potter, tea bowl maker, kettle maker, papier mache-style lacquerer, lacquerer, matal worker, and woodworker)
香道 Kodo (the Way of Incense) in Tea
茶花 Flowers in tearoom
茶室 Tearoom architecture
和菓子 Japanese sweet making
竹 Bamboo craft and simple bamboo utensils making
裂地 Fabric and textile

Instructor: Yumi Soyu Yamasaki, Ph. D
Location: Great Falls, VA