About Me

Welcome to Chasen the Dream. As a lover of puns, when someone suggested this name for my blog I had to use it.

My name is Michael. I am studying the Urasenke tradition with the East-West Chanoyu Center in Seattle, WA. I’m more or less a beginner, beginning my practice in August 2023. You can expect to see my rambling thoughts, photography, and a lot of notes on chanoyu (lit. “hot water for tea”) and related arts such as chabana (lit. “tea flowers”), chakaiseki (meals for tea gatherings), and okashi (sweets).

You will not see detailed descriptions of temae (procedures) of any level, though I might talk about aspects of them.

一服さしあげます。