The best, most expensive tea will taste terrible with heavily chlorinated tap-water. Filtered or good spring water make the best tea. Speaking of water, it is the most important part of tea. To be honest, I prefer the Chinese style of brewing tea: using loose leaves. Matcha is a Japanese style of tea that grinds the leaves into a powder. The tea anime characters offer is matcha. Tea is great for socializing and relaxing. It does cool during the summer (iced or hot oddly enough), and I love tea during cold winters. Despite having caffeine, tea is relaxing. Rarely does tea become a focus, but it is offered to characters to calm them, cool them, warm them up, and other treatments. Tea is a prominent detail in anime as well. Like many aspects of Japanese culture, Chinese practices were taken and adapted into something quite different. Of the two, Japan is perhaps more famous as a tea nation because of its tea ceremony and the teahouses geisha entertain. When we think of tea, we think of China and Japan. The average Westerner, in his sleek complacency, will see in the tea ceremony but another instance of the thousand and one oddities which constitute the quaintness and childishness of the East to him. Those who cannot feel the littleness of great things in themselves are apt to overlook the greatness of little things in others. Of course, I still enjoy them and call them tea. Herbal teas like chamomile and rooibos are not true teas. The earliest appearance of tea in European writing comes from an Arab merchant in 879 (Okakura, 1906). Although most think tea arrived in Europe during the Colonel period, it arrived far earlier. Tea traveled from China to Japan and Europe. These varieties helped tea’s popularity spread. There are 380 varieties of tea (Fisher, 2010). Although, most tea comes from trees cultivated to look like bushes. It is an evergreen tree that can live to be over 2,000 years old. Tea came from the forests of southern China. The leaf has inspired painters, writers, poets, warriors, despots, Victorians, saints, and many others. Thick books have been dedicated to tea and its influence on history. But even the humble filter teabag available at the local grocery store can help you get in touch with thousands of years of tea history. I’ve been known to spend a chunk on imported teas. One of the greatest pleasures is reading (or writing or watching anime) with a cup of tea at hand.
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