Join us for a visit to the Jaku’an Tea House in the Seien Japanese Garden, where the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has taught thousands of students the art of the Japanese tea ceremony for the last half century. This authentic tea house was first constructed in Japan and reassembled in its current location in 1972 after Genshitsu Sen, a 15th generation grand tea master commissioned the building.

The Urasenke (裏千家) tea ceremony is one of the three major schools of Japanese tea ceremonies derived directly from the 16th Century tea master Sen no Rikyū.