Interesting post by @yaya on his other blog: “Ritualizing the habit, Part Two – Tea Cups: yunomi, chawan, cha bei and co” If you don’t know what these terms mean, head for his post.
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Ritualizing the habit, Part Two – Tea Cups: yunomi, chawan, cha bei and co. | Ya-Ya’s Tea-Board’ image=”]This is a post I have been planning to write for a long time (I wrote the first part in this mini series about teapots in July last year). One of the reasons this post was such a long time in the making is that the seemingly easy subject of tea cups is quite a daunting one if you start going into any depth beyond the obvious definitions. But let’s start with a basic definition and look at the cultural differences afterward. A tea cup could be universally described as a vessel used to hold tea.[/bpfb_link]