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Camellia Tea Ceremony

🍵🏖️TEA ON THE EDGE🍃🌄

With each new outdoor tea ceremony, Nao-san gets a little more daring...she's even expressed a desire for some sort of bungee jump-tea combo in the future (time to start Crowdfunding🤔).

For autumn's expedition, tea making on a cliff edge😵‍💫

#Japan #野点 #Wakayama #和歌山 #cliffedge #teaceremony #茶道 #matcha #抹茶

Tea atop cliffs overlooking Wakayama Bay.
Itotatsu's cute bear monaka (a bear shaped wafer filled with sweet, flavoured bean paste).
Bandoko-teien, a manicured garden on the cliffs overlooking Wakayama Bay.
A cloudy day at Wakayama Bay.
30 September at 2:10 | Open on mastodon.social
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It was a blustery day at 'Bandoko-teien' (番所庭園), a beautifully manicured garden landscaped atop a stretch of cliff.

The promontory, which juts out into Wakayama Bay, has long been known as the 'nose of the Bansho' (番所の鼻)...'bansho' or 'bandoko' (番所) means 'guardhouse'👀

#Bandokoteien #番所庭園 #Japan #Wayakama #和歌山 #和歌山県 #野点 #teaonthego #teaceremony

30 September at 2:54 | Open on mastodon.social
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The fortified promontory was a lookout for the Kishū clan, who vigilantly guarded their coastline against foreign intruders.
It was 1 of 10 strategic points along the cliffs, but was considered most important as it stood closest to their base at Wakayama Castle (和歌山城).

#Bandokoteien #番所庭園 #Japan #Wayakama #和歌山 #和歌山県 #野点 #teaonthego #teaceremony

Matcha precariously purchased on the clifftop overlooking Wakayama Bay.
Wakayama Castle.
Bandoko-teien, a garden on cliffs overlooking Wakayama Bay.
Matcha with a view...a blustery day on the cliffs above Wakayama Bay.
30 September at 4:16 | Open on mastodon.social
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Wakayama Castle was the administrative base of the Kishū clan (1 of the 3 'noble' branches of the Tokugawa family).

Toyotomi Hidenaga (豊臣秀長 1540-91) established the current castle, replacing Ōta Castle and building upon old fortifications of the Hatakeyama clan (畠山氏).

#Bandokoteien #番所庭園 #Japan #Wayakama #和歌山 #和歌山県 #野点 #teaonthego #teaceremony

Wakayama Castle in the spring.
The grounds of Wakayama Castle.
Looking out at Wakayama City from the castle.
Wakayama Castle.
30 September at 5:27 | Open on mastodon.social
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With the arrival of Commodore Perry and the 'Black Ships' (マシュー・ペリー 1794-1858/黒船来航) in 1853, the shōgunate hastily ordered construction of full-scale coastal defenses at strategic points. Kishū Domain (紀州藩) expanded and created 10 lookout 'forts'.

#Wakayama #和歌山

30 September at 6:28 | Open on mastodon.social
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