TEA AS A PERSONALITY: Hatomugicha

A series where we envisage what our collection of sensorial and esoteric teas would be, act, and think as personalities. What would it eat? What would it listen to? How would it spend its time? What would it dream about?

This month, we consider Hatomugicha, a soothing herbal tea crafted from lightly roasted job's tears, packaged into our ease-filled tea sachet format. Quiet yet arrestingly nuanced, our producer's careful roasting method offers a clean body and refreshing finish. Our producer crushes the grains slightly after roast to ensure a fully extracted brew.

Continue reading to explore what Hatomugicha might eat, listen to, read and dream about...

TO EAT
Black rice cake (black beans, sugar, rice cake flour, goji, hemp charcoal), 黒餅 〜 禊　祓い 〜, 黒豆、砂糖、餅粉、クコの実、麻炭, 餅匠 しづく 新町店 © Mochisho Shizuku

TO LISTEN
In A Landscape by Sa Pa, released 18 October 2019

TO READ
The People In the Trees - Hanya Yanagihara

TO INSPIRE
Anni Albers, image courtesy of Josef and Anni Albers Foundation 

TO CONSIDER
"The Teapot" by Robert Bly, from Talking into the Ear of a Donkey, 2011

TO WATCH
Anne Truitt, Working, a film by Jem Cohen (2009) 

TO VISIT
Anna Hillar: Tummo, on view at Tempesta Gallery, Milan
(June 21 – October 7, 2022)