Happy New Year of the Horse!

[Tatsuo]

February 4, 2014

Today was the first official day of the new Year of the Horse! I'd like to extend my family's best wishes to you & yours for a year filled with health and happiness, and surrounded by beauty.

There are various New Year celebrations in Asia; January 1st, Chinese (Lunar) New Year, and the Buddhist New Year in April, to name a few. In ancient Japan, the day following Setsubun (the Division of the Seasons)

represented the start of the new year, and I like to keep this tradition alive. Still today, for those of us in the Japanese tea world; it's also the start of the countdown to the first tea harvest in May (another reason to celebrate and to wish for a bountiful and delicious harvest!)

Happy New Year!

Sincerely,

Tatsuo

Tatsuo Tomeoka

Charaku Fine Japanese Tea www.charaku-tea.com

WaSabiDou Antiques & Folk Crafts www.mingei-wasabidou.com

Blog: http://wasabidou.blogspot.com 

Tel: 206.660.4189

[James Cody Kroll]

Happy Year of the Horse!!!

合掌,

Cody Kroll  コーディ  クロール                                                                             

Kuma Gama - Clay Studio  熊窯 陶工房

www.kumagama.com

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly... Specialization is for insects. ~ Robert A. Heinlein 1907 - 1988

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