Genmaicha Tea Bags
with Matcha
Genmaicha Tea Bags
with Matcha
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Made in Ujitawara, Kyoto, this genmaicha brings together six ingredients: stone-milled matcha, gyokuro, kabusecha, two kinds of roasted rice, and hana, a puffed glutinous rice. The matcha gives immediate color and body. The leaf teas and rice follow with umami, roast, and a gently sweet finish.
Matcha, gyokuro, and kabusecha
Two roasted rices plus hana
Stone-milled matcha for color and green-tea depth
The tea bag keeps the six-part blend measured while allowing powder, leaf, and rice to open in sequence.
Details
Origin: Ujitawara, Kyoto, Japan
Blend: Six tea and rice components
Matcha Milling: Stone mill
Format: Tea bags
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Further Reading
Six Ingredients from Ujitawara
A Kyoto History for Genmaicha
One established account traces genmaicha to an early twentieth-century Kyoto tea merchant who roasted fragments of New Year's mirror rice cake and blended them with tea. The method joined the aroma of toasted grain to a daily green tea.
This version is made in Ujitawara, a town central to the history of steamed Japanese green tea. It does not claim to reproduce the first genmaicha. It uses the local tea-making context to build a more detailed composition from powder, leaf, and rice.
Six Materials in Water
Stone-milled matcha disperses first, giving immediate green color and body. Gyokuro and kabusecha infuse more slowly, adding shaded sweetness and umami. Two roasted rices create depth, while hana opens the aroma.
The materials do not release at the same speed. The blend is set around that sequence: matcha first, leaf tea through the center, and roasted rice carrying the finish.
Drinking
Heals
We present Japanese tea and matcha as part of the Drinking Heals collection. In Japan, IPPUKU describes a brief pause—sometimes with tea, sometimes with a cigarette. Drinking Heals reimagines IPPUKU through Japanese tea. Inspired by the familiar warning “ Smoking Kills ” , it proposes another message: “ Drinking Heals .” A moment once associated with tobacco becomes a quiet ritual of water, tea, and time.
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