Senchadō
History. Towards the end of the 17th century in the Edo period, Chinese merchants visiting Nagasaki showed how brewed tea should be drunk, as practised in the Ming dynasty court. This practise of the Chinese tea culture spread in the 18th century until the beginning of the Meiji era, particularly among literati merchants, in the form of friends meeting in a less formal atmosphere than the "chanoyu". Appreciation of painting and literacy objects then took on particular importance. These meetings, often followed by genuine meals, were the opportunity to admire the host's collections, most often composed of objects  imported from China or made in Japan in Chinese style called "karamono". In difference to the preparation of "matcha" tea, which is powdered, "sencha" is prepared using small leaf tea. Similarly to the Chinese Gongfu tea ceremony, "senchadō" has a codified form of preparation, presentation and enjoyment of tea. In spring 2020 the Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum in cooperation with Meiji-mura held a large "sencha" exhibition about Kimura Teizo, an outstanding art collector born in Nagoya. He was already collecting works by at the age of 25 and became patron of the arts. His collection of 3,307 items was  donated to the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, including modern and contemporary art, Edo period paintings, tea pottery, Buddhist art and archaeological relics. Utensils. "Senchadō" uses utensils which are necessary to perform tea. Some of them are used in "macha" tea as well. Different schools will sometimes use different names for the same item, and also use some of the items listed but not necessarily all of them: