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The Japanese Tea Culture in Edo Era Perceived by Chosun Ambassadors

This study reviews Japanese tea culture of the Edo era as described in 'HaeHangChongJae(海行摠載)', which is a diary of what Chosun ambassadors saw, heard, and experienced during their speculative visit to Japan. The following is a summary of the results. First, high-class people usually held a Da-rye reception at their houses, palaces, Da-ok, Dajum, Jumsa, and Sacho. In the palace, there were small rooms called Wabi and Dasil for drinking tea. For lower class people, they occasionally drank tea at teahouses on the street, nearby ports. Therefore, we can infer that low class people did not have specific places to drink tea instead drank tea often at their houses. Second, there were many kinds of tea such as Green tea, Blue tea, Jakseol Tea, Chonji tea, and Soyongdan. As a substitute tea, there were Jaehotang, Ginseng Tea, Ume Tea, and Mandarin Tea. Chonji Tea and Jakseol Tea were exchanged as gifts between the countries. Third, Uji was the best type of tea regarding ease of planting. Nonetheless, tea trees were planted everywhere, including the corner of the farm, squal of the village, inner-side of the house, and middle of the garden. Nobles and knights usually made tea by grinding fresh leaves into a powder, which was then drunk. On the contrary, common people often drank blue tea, a type of Yeob Tea, by boiling the leaves first, they used Hob for blue tea and bundle for Yeob Tea. They also commonly kept the leaves inside of a bottle or in the tea bag. Fifth, Wan, Bae, Hwajagi, Dajama, SungdaByung, Chabungji, Dagwa table, tea table, red plate, silver plate, Dadang, and Dadam were used as ceremonial tea instruments, and these are not so much different from those used currently. Lastly, this study shows that the tea culture of Edo era was influenced by Buddhism from SeonJong. This is a good example of how Taoism and Confucianism were mixed together in general life in the past and shows that Da-rye was maintained. Furthermore, during the Edo period, drinking tea was in fashion due to trade with Western countries and development of tea-related technology.