Urasenke Tankokai Monterey

08/18/2025

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1i0oXUoX8Ss9qyJNbo9R7BXAN9BSY3bYH/view?usp=sharing

Video of the Tea Demonstration at Buddhist Temple of Salinas during the Obon Festival, July 27, 2025.

08/17/2025

Our Mugenki Tea event on August 11, 2025 at the Buddhist Temple of Salinas. Mugenki celebrates and honors Tantansai, the 14th tea master of the Urasenke Tea. He did much to propagate the art of tea to the masses in Japan, and began the same for the rest of the world.

08/17/2025

https://www.yomiuri.co.jp/national/20250814-OYT1T50067/
Our Daisosho, Hounsai passed away August 14th. You can use Google translate to turn the article into English. He lived a long and productive life, introduced the way of tea to the entire world.

【読売新聞】　千利休の流れをくむ茶の湯の文化を世界に広めた茶道裏千家前家元の千玄室（せん・げんしつ）さんが１４日午前０時４２分、死去した。１０２歳だった。 　千家は三代 宗旦 （ そうたん ） の三男 宗左 （ ...

03/13/2024

Monterey Tankokai's Hatsugama event on Feb. 4, 2024, at Buddhist Temple of Salinas. Our special guest, Christie Bartlett Sensei from SF.

03/13/2024

Our Rikyuki Tea Event at Buddhist Temple of Salinas, held on March 10, 2024.

10/24/2023

Tea demonstration at Obon Festival, at Buddhist Temple of Salinas, July 30, 2023. Something that we do practically every year in Salinas Temple during Obon Festival, except that we had to stop during the Covid period for the past 3 years.

07/10/2023

https://www.ksbw.com/article/monterey-obon-festival-returns-for-first-time-since-the-covid-19-pandemic/44492016

Tea Demonstration featured at Monterey Temple Obon Festival.

The Central Coast Japanese community celebrated their 74th annual Obon Festival at the Monterey Peninsula Buddhist Temple on Sunday.

04/15/2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rrtlqvXyJI

政府は、茶道の裏千家・第15代家元の千玄室さんに、内閣総理大臣顕彰を授与すると発表しました。裏千家 第15代家元　千玄室さん「世の人類がみんな肩を並べて、そして差別・区別なく、一番のお茶を楽しんでもらってい....

09/30/2021

This presentation on tea ceremony was created for Salinas Buddhist Temple Obon programming. We tried to get just the essense of what tea ceremony is all about, in a short time. Also an introduction to Monterey Tankokai tea group.

08/02/2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfDTuNyup9Y&t=25s

This YouTube video is on Tasty Japan, a channel with 600K subscribers, and tea ceremony isn't quite what you expect at this site, but the video is really well done. It is in Japanese, and the English subtitle isn't quite right (computer generated?) but maybe good enough to get the general idea of what is being said in Japanese. It does convey some essential feature of what tea ceremony is all about. It looks to be Urasenke School. 😄

茶道 - Japanese Tea Ceremony - 撮影協力：　茶　岡野園http://okano-en.com/

09/15/2020

Re-posting to our own page.

09/15/2020

2020 Hatsugama Nihonma setup
At Buddhist Temple of Salinas Feb 2, 2020