Experience the Japanese Way of Tea with Nyosen Nakamura Sensei

Name: Experience the Japanese Way of Tea with Nyosen Nakamura Sensei
Start: 2025-10-31T17:30:00-05:00
Location: Chazen Museum of Art

Schedule

Fri, 31 Oct, 2025 at 05:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Chazen Museum of Art | Madison, WI

Inspired by the vessels on view at the Chazen Museum's "Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within" exhibit, Nyosen Nakamura Sensei, Headmaster of the Kogetsu Enshu School of Zen Tea Ceremony in Japan, will demonstrate and discuss his art.
Guests will learn and experience the history and philosophy of samurai tea, the connections between mindfulness and tea, and the precise, and the flowing movements of tea-making which offer a living expression of intentionality and presence.
This public program is part of a series of events offered by the Korinji Foundation, a Zen monastery in Reedsburg, Wisconsin.
www.korinji.org
Presented in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Department of Asian Languages and Cultures and the Chazen Museum of Art.