{"id":11513,"date":"2026-10-30T17:39:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T17:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=11513"},"modified":"2026-10-30T17:39:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T17:39:26","slug":"japan-club-and-isco-bring-japanese-tea-ceremony-to-troy-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2026\/10\/30\/japan-club-and-isco-bring-japanese-tea-ceremony-to-troy-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan Club and ISCO bring Japanese Tea Ceremony to Troy University"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION<\/a>) \u2014 For over 1,200 years, Japan has been performing tea ceremonies known as Sad\u014d, translating to “The way of Tea,” Where they make matcha in a highly choreographed fashion.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Japan Club and International Student Cultural Organization brought this tradition to Troy University as a part of their Japan Night.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“It’s a pretty strong tradition in Japan,” said Kobe Dozier, senior interdisciplinary studies major from Columbus, Georgia. “It’s not something people do every day, but it’s something they’ve maintained.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the most important parts of the ceremony was keeping quiet, which allows the person making the tea to not be disrupted and the people receiving the tea to listen to the tea making process. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I think it’s new that we have to stay quiet throughout the ceremony, so I think teaching that to American students is the thing you have to bring from Japan,” said Kanako Saito, a participant of the ceremony and sophomore business major from Tokyo, Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The student making the tea, Yuki Uehara, is a transfer student from Nagasaki International University, where performing a tea ceremony is a part of the curriculum <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I was so nervous, because this is my first time doing the tea ceremony in front of all of the people,” said the Okinawa, Japan native.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Overall, the tea ceremony not only let American students witness something they may not have experienced before, but it also allowed Japanese students to bring part of their culture they can’t readily access in America. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“We don’t really have the opportunity to see the tea ceremony live here in Troy,” Saito said. “It’s been in our culture for a long time, people drink matcha. Also, I see matcha in the states and in other countries, too.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the first time the Japan Club has held a Japanese Tea Ceremony since 2024. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TROY, Ala. (TROJANVISION) \u2014 For over 1,200 years, Japan has been performing tea ceremonies known as Sad\u014d, translating to “The way of Tea,” Where they make matcha in a highly choreographed fashion.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

The Japan Club and International Student Cultural Organization brought this tradition to Troy University as a part of their Japan Night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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