Chakai – Japanese tea gathering at the Bōki-an tea house
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| 27 EUR (Humboldt Forum Day ticket included) |
| max. 6 persons |
| Please note: Please do not enter the teahouse with shoes on. |
| Duration: 45 min |
| English, German, Japanese |
| 3rd floor, Raum 318 |
| Belongs to: Ethnologisches Museum and Museum für Asiatische Kunst |
At the Bōki-an tea house, located on the third floor of the Humboldt Forum in the Japanese Art Gallery of the Museum für Asiatische Kunst, you can experience an authentic Japanese tea ceremony. While the tea is being prepared by the Chadō Urasenke Teeweg-Verein Berlin e.V. under direction of tea master Nobuko Sōchō Sugai-Baumgarten, you can enjoy Japanese sweets and high-quality matcha tea (usucha-light tea) from Uji.
Participants
Nobuko Sugai-Baumgarten grew up in Kyoto. After studying art in Tokyo, she graduated from the Düsseldorf Art Academy and worked as a freelance artist. After several years in New York, she has been living in Berlin since 2004. There she is once again engaged with the Urasenke tea ceremony and the comprehensive artistic aspects of the Japanese tea tradition, which she first encountered as a student.
In 2013, she was involved in founding the Chado Urasenke Teeweg-Verein Berlin e.V. (Urasenke Tea Ceremony Association Berlin), of which she is now chairwoman. She organises and leads events on the Japanese tea ceremony, such as tea demonstrations, tea gatherings, workshops, lectures and lessons in the tradition of the Urasenke tea ceremony – including at the Bōkian tea house in the Humboldt Forum, at Japanese diplomatic missions abroad and at her Genchōan tea room in Berlin. She played a decisive role in the realisation of the ‘Bōkian’ tea room at the Museum of Asian Art in the Humboldt Forum.