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The Japanese custom of drinking green tea came from China about 800 AD. The use
of tea started when Buddhist monks, who had gone to China to study, returned to Japan
bringing tea with them as a spiritual beverage. In the Kamakura era (1191-1333),
the monk Eisai stressed the beneficial effects of tea in his book Maintaining
Health by Drinking Tea (1211):
“Green Tea has an extraordinary power to prolong life. Anywhere a person cultivates tea, long life will follow. In ancient and modern times, tea is the elixir that creates the mountain-dwelling immortal.”
Hata Tea specializes in a tea usually found only in Japan's specialty tea shops, called "Fukamushi-cha" which is a quick, deep steamed tea. A first flush Shizoka Sencha, the process produces a strong sweet premium green tea, with 99% of essential oils intact, characteristics include small leaves (picked in small batches to ensure quality) a dark green color and a typical rich sweet grass taste and smell.
The higher the quality of tea the less bitter and sweeter the tea is, this depends on the time the tea is harvested. "Fukamushi-cha" is the first spring leaves that appear, this is what is used for high end products such as Macha.
In the past we didn't have fancy medications we depended on food for our health, tea was traditionally drank with a meal to promote digestion, in the tea growing areas of Japan the instances of cancer and other maladies are the lowest in the world.
For your health Hata Tea.
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