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Once a week, I join a Japanese class to support a foreign student at school.  Today's lesson was about Tsurezuregusa, which was an essay written by a Japanese monk named Kenko Yoshida long time ago.  ある人、弓射ることを習ふに、諸矢をたばさみて、的に向かふ。  師の言はく「初心の人、二つの矢を持つことなかれ。後の矢を頼みて、初めの矢になほざりの心あり。毎度、ただ、得矢なく、この一矢に定むべしと思へ。」と言ふ。わづかに二つの矢、師の前にて一つをおろそかにせんと思はんや。懈怠の心、みずから知らずといへども、師、これを知る。この戒め、万事にわたるべし。 （吉田兼好） It means, when a man who learned how to do archery was facing the target, his master said to him, "For beginners, don't bring two allows but just one. You must focus on the single allow."  If you have two allows, probably you will not take it as seriously as you have only an allow. The master had already known it and warned his pupil. This, however, could be said to everything. The student, however, couldn't understand the concept which the pupil was not allowed to bring two allows to practice.  What he said was "Practice makes perfect. " So you cannot learn t...

Finally I finished an article about Nishio matcha and a tea house.  You can read it in the Konoe's house in Nishio History Park. You can learn about the house and Nishio matcha. Handing it in the Konoe's house, I popped into the tea restaurant, "Aiya", which has interesting menu, such as noodles called "soba" and some sweets made from matcha. Not only that, upstairs, you can try grinding matcha leaves into fine powdered matcha with a heavy stone mill.  Yes, it's heavy but it's fun! It just takes about less 10 mins long, you can have fresh match. As I learned Japanese tea ceremony (manner) when I was a student, it was quite easily to handle it. However, whether you have experience or not for Japanese tea, you can enjoy making match. If you would like to visit there, it's easy to access from Nagoya by train or car. http://www.matcha.co.jp/english/  (Aiya)