"The tea ceremony requires years of training and……" — Lafcadio Hearn

"The tea ceremony requires years of training and practice ... yet the whole of this art, as to its detail, signifies no more than the making and serving of a cup of tea. The supremely important matter is that the act be performed in the most perfect, most polite, most graceful, most charming manner possible."

— Lafcadio Hearn

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