Past Implementation Details

2023

Vol. 156: "e-nodate".
Host: E.O.U.
Date: 13 January (Sat), 2024
Venue: Auditorium

Vol. 157: "Ikizuru" (Live cranes)
Seat host: Yutaro Murasha
Date: 10 February (Sat) - 12 February (Tue), 2024
Venue: Auditorium

Vol. 158: "Otodate" (Oto-date)
Master of Ceremonies: Akio Suzuki
Date: 31 March (Sun), 2024
Venue: Great Hall and other places in the museum

2022

Vol.155"Global Music Tea Party at Salaam Kaijo"
Seated host: Salaam Kaijo
Date: 3 December 2022
Venue: auditorium, free space

2021

Vol. 153: "Butoh Tea Party - For the sake of Eros"
Master of Ceremonies: Masahiro Kobayashi　
Butoh: IMA DYAKKO Shamisen: Okaeri Sisters　
Sweets: Urara Tsubakino
Date: 30 October 2021
Venue: Great Hall

Vol. 154: "Calendula"
Seated host: Saori Hara　
Tea and flower arrangement: Sho Ogura, Ayako Saito, Yura Sugiura, Ichiro Tsujii, Aoi Higuchi
Music: Tomomi Oda
Chaturk (tea ceremony adviser): Michael Hardy.
Date: 26 February 2022
Venue: auditorium

2020

Tuesday 23 February 2021
Online tea ceremony 'Kika-onza'.
Seated host: Eiyu (artist)
Uehiko (Amouan), tea master.
Activities: Sencha green tea and sweets


Koukan Tea Ceremony (online tea ceremony)
Ichitaro Nakamura's Dance Tea Ceremony, 28 February 2021, online (at the former Shimogamo villa of the MII family).
Yudai Kamisato 'Online Yerba Mate Tea Ceremony', 6 and 7 March 2021, online (Oharano area).
Masako Yasumoto 'How to Melt Lelo', 12 March 2021, online (Shimogamo bath).
YOSHIDA Yuko "Chinese and Taiwanese tea - enjoying the time", 13 Mar 2021, online (at a location in the city).
Kenji Yanobe: 'Watarizuki Chakai - A Space Journey in 2021', 20 March 2021, online (Arashiyama area).
Aiko Miyanaga "Voyage", 20 March 2021, online (Kyoto Art Centre reception room, etc.)
Akane Saijo "Tainai Chakai", 21 March 2021, online (Daigo garage).
Akio Okada "Your melody becomes a masterpiece", 24 March 2021, online (Nijo Castle)
KUROSAKI Sou "International Year of Human Observation", 30 Mar 2021, online (ROME SQUARE)
Organised by: Kyoto Machi-ju Art Executive Committee
Planning: Kyoto Art Centre

2019

29 September 2019 (Sunday)
'"From Asura to Pure Land" - The Aesthetic Sense of Mitsuyuki Hatanaka'
Seated host: Mitsuyuki Hatanaka (Japanese painter and Indian art researcher)
Contents: video of the Dairakudakan 'Ashura', sweets and green tea

24 November (Sun), 2019
'[Avant-garde tea party] @ Hagihara Sakutaro at Hagihara Sakutaro: Listening to the Sound of Footprints'
Seated host: Sakumi Hagiwara (filmmaker, professor emeritus at Tama Art University and director of the Maebashi Literature Museum)
Exhibition: Tim Satomi (embroidery artist)
Content: Sweets and coffee

2018

14 Oct 2018 (Sunday)
''The 'remnants' -- people, things and seasons''
Master of Ceremonies: Muneaki Yonezawa (tea master)
Content: thin tea and sweets

23 Dec (Sun), 2018
'Izumi Ou Memorial - a tea ceremony and exhibition (of sorts) dedicated to Duchamp'
Seated host: Tetsuya Ozaki (journalist/art producer)
Contents: drinks, sweets, artworks and stories about Duchamp

17 Feb (Sun), 2019
Meilin Chakai "Bonsai and Apple Chakai" (Bonsai and Apple Tea Party)
Seated host: Hitomi Kawasaki (bonsai researcher)
Description: Japanese tea to go with tarte tatin while admiring bonsai.

2017

Sunday 30 April 2017.
”Common Sense Theory”
Seating: Hiroshi Yoshioka and Ayako Suetomi
Contents: sencha tea and sweets

28 May (Sun), 2017
”Shogun Yoshinobu and the Desserts of the Diplomats”
Seated host: Mayuko Sano, Associate Professor, International Research Centre for Japanese Studies
Contents: sweets and coffee

21 March 2018 (Wednesday, public holiday)
”Red Various”
Seated host: Takashi Kuniya (contemporary artist)
Contents: water and sugar cubes (with souvenirs)

2016

22 May 2016 (Sunday)
"Ito okashi tea party"
Seated host: JUNKEI CHOUSOU Toshiaki (Choukou Tsukuhakobo)
Content: Matcha green tea and sweets

21 August (Sun), 2016
Summer Holiday Exhibition x Meilin Tea Party '⇅' (⇅ and ⇅ and ⇅ and ⇅)
Seated hostesses: Takeshi Kumon and Takahiro Iwasaki
Contents: amazake (non-alcoholic) and sweets

11 Dec 2016 (Sun)
"Distant Sound Leads to Bamboo Zukushi"
Seated host: Michiaki Okada (shakuhachi player, Kinko-ryu)
Content: Matcha green tea and sweets

21 January (Sat), 2017
"The Tea - Meirin Tea Ceremony"
Master of Ceremonies: Akira Shigeyama (Kyogen performer)

2015

25 Apr 2015 (Sat).
"Cho-Kyoto"
Seating: super-Kyoto (represented by Megumi Matsuo)
Content: drinks, food and stories inspired by the Jomon

27 Jun 2015 (Sat)
"Tea Ceremony"
Hostess: Kazuko Horiguchi (tea master, Chinese tea coordinator, head of Chashido)
Activities: Chinese tea and snacks

5 Dec 2015 (Sat)
Paper Balloon" by Ago Satoshi"
Seated host: Ago Satoshi (playwright, director, director of Atelier Gekiken)
Contents: matcha green tea and sweets

20 Feb 2016 (Sat)
"Two tea ceremonies, two stages, a montage" - "The Lost Time"
"Two Tea Ceremonies, Two Stages, Montage" - "Hamlet"
Seated host: Shinya Takada (Owner, Café Montage)
Content: Tea and Nowhereman's sweets / Coffee and Nowhereman's sweets

2014年

Saturday 24 May 2014.
"The Beginning of Wagashi"
Seated host: Nikka (Japanese confectionery artist)
Content: Matcha green tea

Saturday 25 October 2014
"TA-jeong차회"
Master of Ceremonies: Yun Doshin (Director of the Kyoto Branch of the Korean Tea Ceremony Association / tea ceremony practitioner)
Content: Korean powdered green tea

Saturday 22 November 2014
Myeongnyun Tea Ceremony "Chakkai no mizu" (The Water of Tea Ceremony)
Seated host: Zon Ito (artist)
Content: Water collected in Kyoto

Saturday 24 January 2015
"HITOHITO CHAKAI - Hatsugama - Japanese candle hospitality"
Master of Ceremonies: Takumi Onishi (Japanese candle craftsman)
Content: Matcha green tea

28 Mar 2015 (Sat)
"Ippuku Tea Ceremony"
Master of Ceremonies: Ippuku
Content: Matcha green powdered tea

2013

25 May 2013 (Sat)
"Fighting Tea" at the "Kasumi no Chashitsu"
Seated host: Ushioko Fukumoto (dyer)
Content: Sencha green tea

27 July (Sat), 2013
"Are calligraphy and lemonade a cosmic miracle?"
Seated host: Hiroaki Isobe (astrophysicist)
Contents: Lemonade

23 November 2013 (Sat)
"Experiencing the space of the tea ceremony"
Seated host: Teruhito Iijima (tea house architect)
Content: Matcha (powdered green tea)

7 December 2013 (Sat)
"Hamada Family Hospitality"
Master of Ceremonies: Takuji Hamada (Associate Professor, Nanzan University)
Contents: Tea, meat pie (paasutii), yoghurt

2012

25 May 2013 (Sat)
"Ponko-tsutsumi chishin"
Master of Ceremonies: Naoyasu Sowa (kotsuzumi player of the Sachi school)
Content: Matcha (powdered green tea)

22 September (Sat), 2012
"Half Farmer, Half X Tea Party"
Master of Ceremonies: Naoki Shiomi (Representative of the Half Farmer, Half X Institute)
Content: Matcha green powdered tea

Saturday, 24 November 2012
"POP UP TEA ROOM"
Host: RAD (architect, researcher)
Content: Matcha green tea

23 Feb 2013 (Sat)
"YURUERU CHAKAI"
Seated host: Akira Tatehata (poet/art critic/president of Kyoto City University of Arts)
Organiser: Satoru Takahashi (Professor of Conceptual Design, Kyoto City University of Arts)
Content: Matcha green tea

23 Mar 2013 (Sat)
"2000 Years of Excavation: Tea Ceremony"
Seated host: Toshiyuki Shibakawa (artist)
Content: Matcha green powdered tea