Experience the Japanese Way of Tea with Nyosen Nakamura Sensei

Inspired by the vessels on view at the Chazen Museum's "Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within" exhibit, Nyosen Nakamura Sensei, Headmaster of the Kogetsu Enshu School of Zen Tea Ceremony in Japan, will demonstrate and discuss his art.

Guests will learn and experience the history and philosophy of samurai tea, the connections between mindfulness and tea, and the precise, and the flowing movements of tea-making which offer a living expression of intentionality and presence.

This public program is part of a series of events offered by the Korinji Foundation, a Zen monastery in Reedsburg, Wisconsin.
www.korinji.org

Presented in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and the Chazen Museum of Art.

You may also like the following events from Center for East Asian Studies at UW-Madison:

• Next Wednesday, 8th October, 04:00 pm, Politics of the Sword: Ideology and the Martial in Early Modern Japan in Madison
• This month, 13th October, 12:00 pm, Fuji: The Making of a Global Mountain in Madison

Also check out other Arts events in Madison.