ABOUT

We operate a tea business in Shirakawa, a tea-producing area in Uji, which is ideal for tea production.
He inherited the traditional Uji manufacturing methods of his predecessors and, by incorporating his own ingenuity, strives to create the ultimate work of art, tea.
They have received many awards, including the Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Award in the Tencha category, but in order to protect and develop the tea industry, they have continued to break away from conventional concepts and take on new challenges within their traditional history, winning the Emperor's Three Awards and the Prime Minister's Award, the highest awards available to tea producers.

This rare matcha is also exhibited at national and Kansai tea competitions.
We use carefully selected organic fertilizer, about twice as much as regular matcha, to help the tea plants accumulate umami components.
The exquisite flavor of tencha and matcha is determined by how well amino acids are concentrated in the new shoots.
Shading is applied in stages from the germination stage, up to 95%, higher than the 85% shading rate typically used in cultivation, allowing the new shoots to retain their umami components.
The tea is picked only once a year, and each bud is carefully hand-picked by tea pickers, who then immediately process it into tencha tea while maintaining its freshness.

Prime Minister Award,
which is the one of Japanese Emperor three awards, at Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Festival.

He was born as the fifth generation of the tea farm in Shirakawa, Uji which is best place for producing tea.He both values traditional Uji producing method and considers new method by his own . He's always been pursuing ultimate tea and which leads to masterpiece. He won many awards, especially winning Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries award for tencha as many as 6 times. He won 56th Prime Minister Award which is one of Emperor's three awards and awarded atAgriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries Festival.He is the innovative producer who try new challenge, at the same time valuing long traditional tea history, in order to preserve and advance tea industry.

TSUJIKI tea is very precious and sent to national and Kansai region competitive exhibition.
Our organic fertilizer is selected very carefully and tea plants are given sufficent organic fertilizer twice as much as other typical tea farm's plants, which makes it possible to accumulate umami into tea plants.
We harvest only once a year. In the harvesting season, each tea leaves are wholeheartedly handpicked by pickers. Soon after harvesting, we process as soon as possible to retain freshness and finally resulting in tencha.