− | Tea may have been first introduced to Japan in [[805]] by [[Saicho|Saichô]], who also introduced [[Tendai]] Buddhism. Tea only first gained popularity in China around one hundred years earlier.<ref>Gallery labels, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.</ref> Powdered tea, like that most typically used in tea ceremony, was then introduced alongside [[Rinzai]] [[Zen]] by [[Eisai]], in [[1191]].<ref>Conrad Schirokauer, David Lurie, and Suzanne Gay, ''A Brief History of Japanese Civilization'', Wadsworth Cengage (2013), 81.</ref> However, it was not until the [[Muromachi period]] that tea ceremony as a practice really has its origins. | + | [[Tea]] may have been first introduced to Japan in [[805]] by [[Saicho|Saichô]], who also introduced [[Tendai]] Buddhism. Tea only first gained popularity in China around one hundred years earlier.<ref>Gallery labels, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.</ref> Powdered tea, like that most typically used in tea ceremony, was then introduced alongside [[Rinzai]] [[Zen]] by [[Eisai]], in [[1191]].<ref>Conrad Schirokauer, David Lurie, and Suzanne Gay, ''A Brief History of Japanese Civilization'', Wadsworth Cengage (2013), 81.</ref> However, it was not until the [[Muromachi period]] that tea ceremony as a practice really has its origins. |