Tea Ceremony Kyūgetsu

Introduction to Tea Ceremony Kyūgetsu

　　Kyoto is Japan’s cultural center. The city is rich in historic places to visit, traditional arts and crafts to appreciate, and venerable cultural practices to experience. All, however, that is for the most part accessible to the visitor are brief, surface glimpses of what lies hidden underneath.

　　As masters and devoted teachers of the rite of tea, we make it our first concern to provide for our visitors and students an authentic engagement with this art. Instead of limiting them to mere outsider spectatorship, we strongly believe that whoever has chosen to visit the cultural capital of Japan, Kyoto, should at least receive informed guidance in engaging fully with one of the traditional practices available in this city.

　　At Tea Ceremony Kyūgetsu it is our mission to make the rite of tea accessible, comprehensible and enjoyable for whoever chooses to visit us. This we do not only through offering an elegantly-expert service of tea, but also by bringing our guests to discover, through full immersion-participation, the spiritual and emotional effects afforded by such a service, helped by detailed explanations in competent English.​

　　In sharing with foreign visitors our understanding of this unique form of hospitality, our goal extends beyond increasing worldwide appreciation of this rite, and indeed of traditional Japanese culture as a whole. For we believe that engagement with Tea is engagement with the wisdom of our forebears, doing which can be of invaluable assistance in resetting the paradigms through which we see the world, and in effect help make this world a better place.