Green Tea
Though Green Tea makes up only ten percent of the world’s produced tea,
however, it is the most natural tea class which is only dried with heat and
undergoes no fermentation process. Green tea has the most medical valve and
very low in caffeine.
The Japanese tea service, the
Tea Ceremony
(in which green tea is used), is an art form in and of itself. Today,
green tea is mainly grown on plateaus, sloping fields, and basins by
large rivers in Shizuoka prefecture except in Izu peninsula.
Although there are no definite records about when and how green
tea was first brought to Japan, it is believed that Buddhist priests
from China and India, and Japanese envoys dispatched to China brought green
tea to Japan in the 8th century. The first attempt of green tea cultivation
in Shizuoka dates back to the late 19th century when 200 samurais of the
Tokugawa shogunate, who were clan headed by Kageki Chujo, began to cultivate
green tea on the Makinohara plateau; green tea cultivation has been well
established in Shizuoka since then.
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