Hoshino, Yame, Fukuoka, Japan
Kurazumiさん
“The sweeter and more delicious the leaves are to us humans, the more the bugs will like it too,” Kurazumiさん remarked.
“High risk, low return.” Like houses, the price is limited to the neighborhood. More difficult cultivation techniques don’t result in higher profits, and often the opposite.
Inquiring on some topics over the phone, Kurazumiさん once said to me “百聞は一見に如かず ひゃくぶんはいっけんにしかず (Seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times.)
To know Matcha is to be there, in the fields, breathing the dew and feeling the strands of spider web against your knees that bisect the bushes.
Producer Kurazumiさん |
Terroir Hoshino, Yame, Fukuoka, Japan |
Generation 4th Generation |
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AWARDS
2018 - First place winner of the highly esteemed National Tea Competition (第75回全国茶品評会) Gyokuro category
His father holds over 5 First place awards in the same category.
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Hoshino, Yame, Fukuoka, Japan
In the rolling hills of Hosinomura, the Village of the Stars, sits one of Japan’s oldest Tencha factories. Kurazumiさん, and his two sons, operate the factory just one time a year.
The oven takes over 24 hours to “warm up”, and it produces some of the most legendary tea in the country, winning three 1st-place titles at the National Tea Competition in Japan.
