2010 New Year Sale!

Akiba Mart had just started the “2010 New Year Sale” having discount up to 20% in Uji Tea and Tea Sets. Also for orders over $90 for Tea and Tea Sets, free shipping (including EMS international shipping) will be available.

It will be a great chance to try our best Uji Tea available. I believe you will be delighted with its taste and aroma. For the Tea Sets, these are worth having one at your home. Best to extract Uji Tea at your home, but also best for gifts to your important person.

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Genuine Uji Tea

Today Uji tea is well known as a luxury brand from famous tea- producing area. That is believed to date from over all those years ago.

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.

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The Tea Harvest Seasons of Uji

Like Toku said,the first harvest season of Japanese tea is beginning.The tea plant is very vigorous.If you pick tea leaves off the tea plant, the new sprout appears in the plant soon after picking.So tea is picked about three-four times a year in Japan.

The first season is from early-April to late-May.The tea harvested this season is called Ichiban-Cha or Shincha(first picked tea) and tastes even better than other harvest seasons.Because it contains a lot of nourishment saved from autumn(last harvest season) to spring in tea plant. Ichiban-Cha is rich in taste and flavor.

The second harvest season is from mid-June to late-July and the third harvest season is from early-August to early September.The tea quality is getting worse as fall approaches.Sweetness and taste decreases , and bitterness and astringency increase.

In Uji, tea is picked only two times a year.Uji tea made of only first picked tea and second picked tea.So the annual harvest of tea in Uji(Kyoto) is only 3% of Japan’s total harvest but Uji tea has a lot of confidence in the taste.

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