Kyoto Misen School Botanical Scent Making&Matcha Experience
ID: GYG1400601-2140059
Categorie:
Land: Japan
Duur:
01:10 uren
Beschrijving
Discover the traditions of the Misen incense school in a Kyoto cultural heritage villa. Distill seasonal botanicals to craft your own unique scent, and relax with a premium matcha experience.
Step into ICHIFUNE, a quiet space within the grounds of Kosei-in, a Rinzai Zen temple normally closed to the public. Here, overlooking its Kyoto City-designated scenic garden, you will turn the season you encounter in Kyoto into your own “Incense Water.”
Please note that the experience does not include entry into the temple building.
Begin with an introduction to the season and Japan’s 24 solar terms. Smell seasonal botanicals and traditional Japanese incense ingredients one by one, then choose the scents that feel right to you.
Place your selected ingredients in a small glass still. As the still is heated, steam slowly rises and returns as drops carrying their natural scents. Waiting for each drop to form is part of the experience. Slow down and enjoy this quiet moment while overlooking the historic garden.
While the distillation continues, enjoy Uji matcha by Jinjiro Yamamoto, made with a deep commitment to a tradition of tencha cultivation spanning more than 700 years, together with a traditional Japanese sweet.
“Incense Water” is inspired by two Japanese traditions: zukō, incense used for purification, and temizu, cleansing with water before entering a sacred space.
At the end, take your Incense Water home and use it when you wish to purify yourself, calm your mind, or quietly reset.
The seasonal ingredients change with Japan’s 24 solar terms, so the same scent is never created twice.
Take home a drop of the season you experienced in Kyoto.
Designed and curated by Misenryu.
Hoogtepunten
- Create Incense Water within the grounds of a normally closed Zen temple.
- Choose 24-solar-term botanicals and traditional Japanese incense ingredients.
- Slow down as each drop forms from the glass still in a quiet, mindful pause.
- Enjoy Uji matcha and a sweet overlooking a Kyoto City-designated scenic garden.
- Take home your incense water, inspired by Japanese incense culture.
Talen
BELANGRIJKE INFORMATIE
The experience lasts about 60~70 minutes
This is not a temple tour
Access to the temple building is not included
Please meet at the main entrance gate of Kosei-in Temple 5 minutes before the start time. The gate to Ichifune is locked, so please wait outside the gate. Your host will meet you there and guide you to the private workshop space inside the temple grounds. Please do not enter the temple grounds on your own.
INCLUDED
- All materials for making your own “incense water”
- Seasonal botanicals and traditional incense ingredients
- Your finished “incense water” to take home
- Matcha and a traditional Japanese sweet
- English-speaking guide
- Views of the historic garden from the private experience space
NIET INBEGREPEN.
- Access to the temple building
Wanneer moet ik boeken?
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Annuleringen
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