Translator Reviews ( Japanese → English )

Japanese

季節感のあるきれいな菓子は、茶席を引き立ててくれるものでもあります。バターやチーズ、油を使った菓子は茶道には向きません。
抹茶は緑茶の一種で、茶道に使われるお茶です。まず茶杓で抹茶をすくい茶碗に入れます。次に柄杓でお湯を茶碗に一気に注ぎ入れます。そして軽く茶碗を抑えながら、手早く茶筅でかき回しますと、お茶ができあがります。茶道のお茶は苦いというイメージがあるかもしれませんが、そんなことはありません。先にいただくお菓子で甘くなった口の中を抹茶がスッキリとさせてくれます。

English

Beautiful confectionery that brings you a feeling of the season adds spice to tea ceremony.
Sweets which contain oil such as butter or cheese are not suitable for tea ceremony.
Matcha is a kind of green tea, and used for tea ceremony. First, you scoop Macha powder with a teaspoon and put it in a teacup. Then, ladle hot water into the cup at once, and stir quickly with a bamboo tea whisk while holding it softly with your hands. That's how you make a Matcha tea. You might have an image that tea of tea ceremony is bitter, but it is not true. Matcha freshen your mouth by rinsing it after you enjoyed sweets.