The Song art of whisking powdered tea was an important tea practice and a mark of refined living, celebrated a…
The Song art of whisking powdered tea was an important tea practice and a mark of refined living, celebrated as one of the era's four cultural pastimes alongside incense appreciation, flower arranging, and antique connoisseurship.
Introduced to Japan during the Southern Song, it gradually evolved into matcha-do, a core art of the Japanese tea ceremony, and has endured as one of its defining forms to this day.