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The first thing to enjoy
tea is, of course, making water hot. This is the
point.
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Be sure to use an iron
kettle.
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When you can't find it,
you can put a rusty nail in it and boil
water.
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Now you got the point. You
need water containing iron to taste good Japanese
tea！
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Hold on! Don't use boiled
water as it is. It will make tea bitter and
rough!
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Althongh it is depend on
the kinds of teas, leave the boiled water up to
apropriate temperature especially for Sencha and
Gyokuro.
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You might get different
advices from different books .
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I would advise you to make
water a little hotter than human skin.
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Now it's time to pour the
hot water into the teapot containing tea leaves. A
little water.
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Although it's depend on
the season and the temperature of the room, steam
them around one minute.
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You should so pour that
the volume of the water after steamed shall be one
drop per one teacup.It's hard!
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The volume of the tea
leaves is one or tea spoonful per person. It's only
standard.
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Pour just one drop into a
teacup gently. Just a drop! For the first cup,
taste this drop.
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An old saying : " I'll pay
a million yens for this drop!"
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I don't know if it was
true or not, but I can understand it.
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From the second cup, enjoy
as you please, stronger or lighter...
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Translation by
S.Katagishi
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