{"id":1485,"date":"2014-05-20T22:46:18","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T13:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.koukaen-cha.jp\/?p=1485"},"modified":"2014-05-20T22:46:18","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T13:46:18","slug":"meguria-ocyatumi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/en\/2014\/05\/20\/meguria-ocyatumi\/","title":{"rendered":"We had a tea picking experience at Toyota Co-op &quot;Meglia&quot;."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, May 14th, we held a tea picking experience at Toyota Co-op &quot;Meglia&quot;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_5729_R.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1501\" alt=\"IMG_5729_R\" src=\"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_5729_R-250x187.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The number of applicants was more than doubled,<\/p>\n<p>There were about 30 winners in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1502\" alt=\"IMG_5725_R\" src=\"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_5725_R-250x187.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"187\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This time, we are using natural hand-picked tea plants,<\/p>\n<p>Not one core and two leaves<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(At our tea farm, if the tea is harvested by machine, we offer a simple tea picking experience.<\/p>\n<p>(They are picked with two leaves per stem.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_5731_R.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1503\" alt=\"IMG_5731_R\" src=\"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_5731_R-250x187.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>difficult<\/p>\n<p>They experienced the traditional Mikawa technique of &quot;Shigoki-tsumi.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They helped us distinguish between new shoots and bancha tea and picked them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_5742_R.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1504\" alt=\"IMG_5742_R\" src=\"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/IMG_5742_R-250x187.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also,<\/p>\n<p>Wearing authentic Kasuri fabric,<\/p>\n<p>Transform into a tea girl.<\/p>\n<p>After taking a commemorative photo,<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/koukaen_kakou03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-189\" alt=\"\u9ad8\u9999\u5712\u8336\u8449\u52a0\u5de5\u30fb\u4ed5\u7acb\u3066\" src=\"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/koukaen_kakou03-250x178.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Factory tour.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_270\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/inim_chameshi02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-270\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-270\" title=\"Takakoen Hand-picked Tea Rice\" alt=\"inim_chameshi02\" src=\"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/inim_chameshi02-250x178.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"178\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-270\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Takakoen Hand-picked Tea Rice<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>after that,<\/p>\n<p>Eat rice balls with tea,<\/p>\n<p>I had a great time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By the way,<\/p>\n<p>Chameshi is a traditional food of the Mikawa tea region.<\/p>\n<p>There are many different types of chameshi across the country, but in Mikawa they use tencha tea leaves, which are the tea leaves before they are ground into matcha.<\/p>\n<p>Of course. This tencha is served as hand-picked tea rice.<\/p>\n<p>It is sold at Takakoen and is made using only hand-picked tencha.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They were able to experience tea and spend a different time than usual.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to everyone who participated.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to all the staff at Meguria for your concern.<\/p>\n<p>Please come and play again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5\u670814\u65e5\uff08\u6c34\uff09\u30c8\u30e8\u30bf\u751f\u5354\uff62\u30e1\u30b0\u30ea\u30a2\uff63\u69d8\u304a\u8336\u6458\u307f\u4f53\u9a13\u3092\u884c\u3044\u307e\u3057\u305f\u3002 &nbsp; &#8230; <\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,4],"tags":[16,17,11,6,10],"class_list":["post-1485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event","category-information","category-item","tag-16","tag-17","tag-11","tag-6","tag-10"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1485\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kokaen-cha.jp\/blog\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}