Useful temperatures, ratios and techniques you can repeat.
Tea · place · practice
Know the leaf.
Make the bowl.
Independent lessons on matcha—from shaded fields and stone mills to the small decisions that make a better bowl at home.
Practice over perfection
01 — Our approach
Good matcha begins long before the whisk.
We connect preparation with agriculture, regional history and craft. Clear explanations, careful methods, and no ceremony stripped of its context.
Every lesson returns to growers, cultivars, tools and place.
Tea is attention made visible. Learn slowly enough to notice.
Four ways in.
Begin with what is in front of you, then follow the questions outward.
A useful beginning
One bowl,
four decisions.
MeasureStart with 2 grams of sifted matcha.
HeatUse 60–70 ml water around 75°C.
WhiskMove lightly from the wrist, not the shoulder.
NoticeTaste first; adjust one variable next time.
“The point is not to perform tea perfectly. It is to become more attentive.”Matcha School · Field principle 04