Chanoyu

/tʃɑnɔjuː/ noun

A traditional Japanese tea ceremony involving the careful preparation and serving of matcha green tea as a meditative and social practice.

From Japanese cha (tea) + yu (hot water). The ceremony developed during the 15th-16th centuries in Japan as a Zen Buddhist influenced ritual.

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