I ate pretty gorgeous parfait whose price was 930yen.

IYEMON Parfait

 And when you order tea ,Tea and Houhin-teapot come and you make tea yourself.

Houhin and Tea

Houhin Teapot 1

Houhin Teapot 2

I recommend you go to  “IYEMON SALON”  if you are passing by.
 ”IYEMON SALON”  is near the corner of Sanjo and Karasuma streets.

Google Maps “IYEMON SALON”

IYEMON Parfait

In 1911, the Sung dynasties, Eisai who was a master of Zen brought back tea seeds to Japanese from China and taught Japanese people about matcha tea ceremony technique. In1207, saint Myoue in Madarao kozanji temple, Kyoto sowed the seeds inherited from Eisai in the field of Uji, which was that the origin of Uji tea. In Muromachi period, the Ashikaga shogunate encouraged the people to grow Uji tea, which spread the brand name and how wonderful Uji tea is.

Uji tea is the Japanese traditional tea that produced in the south of Kyoto. And also Uji tea is defined as that 100 percent of tea leaves are produced in Kyoto. Additionally, the following tea also can be called Uji tea. It is that over 50 percent of the tea leaves is produced in Kyoto and blended with the tea leaves produced in Shiga, Nara, and Mie of Kansai region.

Shizuoka tea from Shizuoka in Kanto region and Yame tea from Fukuoka in Kyushu region also taste good, but the teas mixing with tea leaves from other areas can not be called “Uji tea”. Are you wondering why I mention about it? The Uji tea brand is really high-impact even though that tea is produced in small quantities. Therefore, fake brand-name products targeted at foreigners have increased. There are some bad people who disguise the tea from different area as Uji tea because the people who are good on geography of Japan are very few in other countries.

Since I was born in Uji, I consider I have to fight against the sad fact. “Matsusaka Suishoudo” which provides us at Akiba Mart with the Uji tea is the real Uji tea commission agent.  We are proudly introducing the real Uji tea to customer in the world through Akiba Mart.
Honestly, the price is far from cheap…. however, it is the real Uji tea I would like you to drink!!!  Please try it at Akiba Mart!!!

Genuine Uji Matcha Tea
Genuine Uji Gyokuro Tea
Genuine Uji Sencha Tea

The following picture is major production areas of Japanese tea for reference.

Major Japanese Tea Production Areas

Most of effects for beautiful skin are made by working of vitamin A and C. Vitamin A makes mucous membranes such as the skin, noses, and throats strong, and improves the immunity. Immunity acquired by vitamin A controls breeding of the acne bacterium that causes acne, and it is effective against the troubles of the skins such as a dry skin and psoriasis also.

Vitamin C is known to an element required for the synthesis of collagen which has a cosmetic advantage. Vitamin C helps the generation of collagen, and brings the skin’s suppleness. Moreover, it is effective to change a black melanin into the reduced melanin and to combat freckles , and to decrease cholesterol.

The anti-aging effects are made by working of vitamin E. Because vitamin E has a strong antioxidant effect and the anti-arteriosclerotic effect,  it removes the active oxygen which is the ringleader of all diseases such as aging and the cancer of the skin. As a result, the progression of aging and arteriosclerosis is controlled. Moreover, since it facilitates the flow of blood, it is effective against skin blemishes and poor circulation.

However, because vitamin A and vitamin E are the fat-soluble vitamins, they remain in used tea leaves without dissolving in water.  Let’s take it to eat tea leaves or Matcha.

These vitamin A, C, and E are ‘Antioxidant vitamin’ that has the antioxidant action. The synergy effect is generated by taking these together. Because their antioxidant actions keep working for body  for a long time by preventing to be oxidized themselves each other. Moreover, the catechin that contained Japanese green tea has the antioxidant action 20 times vitamin E, and a similar synergy effect is brought with the vitamins.

Nowadays the vitamins for beauty can be taken by the supplement in modern days. But the supplement has a problem of the health hazard by the excess ingestion.

We recommend taking them from Japanese tea a natural food for beauty!

Yoshiko is currently studying Japanese tea ceremony called “Sado” or “Cha-no-yu “.
Of course she knows how to prepare tasty matcha tea.

She is great teacher.

There are two types of preparation of matcha tea: koicha (“thick tea”) and usucha (“thin tea”).
May be usucha is more popular than koicha.

She taught me both.

Shige took a video of “how to prepare matcha tea” and Toku and me are editing it now.

We will upload  this video after open AKIBA MART  ! Please wait!

Be that as it may,
Shige and Yoshiko !  Thanks a lot for helping me !
Love you always !

If you want to know how to prepare tasty matcha tea now, please refer this page “How To Prepare Matcha”.

usucha

koicha

DAI-SEIKOU!! (Big success!!) Yoshiko and Shige and me

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