{"id":5258,"date":"2025-06-17T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/samuraichajin.com\/?p=5258"},"modified":"2025-06-25T11:02:48","modified_gmt":"2025-06-25T02:02:48","slug":"250617-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/samuraichajin.com\/en\/250617-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Worked on the first tea crop (Arai Tencha Factory)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I started working part-time at the Arai Tencha factory in the town of Ujitawara in the fall of 2024. This was the first time I spent the first tea season at the Tencha factory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/samuraichajin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a2505-07.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5245\" srcset=\"http:\/\/samuraichajin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a2505-07.jpg 600w, http:\/\/samuraichajin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a2505-07-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a long experience in tea manufacturing factories, but it has always been in rubbed tea factories, so-called sencha and gyokuro making factories. With the recent matcha boom, I wanted to know how tencha, the raw material for matcha, is made, and it was a quick way for me to help out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/samuraichajin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a2505-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5246\" srcset=\"http:\/\/samuraichajin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a2505-08.jpg 600w, http:\/\/samuraichajin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a2505-08-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are also various varieties of tea leaves used as raw materials and<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/samuraichajin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a2505-09.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5247\" srcset=\"http:\/\/samuraichajin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a2505-09.jpg 600w, http:\/\/samuraichajin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a2505-09-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are many things to notice again, such as differences in the way they are covered and picked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/samuraichajin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a2505-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5248\" srcset=\"http:\/\/samuraichajin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a2505-10.jpg 600w, http:\/\/samuraichajin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a2505-10-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The work itself is light work, but I spent many enjoyable days seeing various parts of the manufacturing process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" src=\"https:\/\/samuraichajin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a2505-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5249\" srcset=\"http:\/\/samuraichajin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a2505-11.jpg 600w, http:\/\/samuraichajin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/a2505-11-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I will continue to learn the key to making good tea even with tencha!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started working part-time at the Arai Tencha factory in the town of Ujitawara in the fall of 2024. 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