New Year's tea ceremony with huge bowls at Nara temple

New Year's tea ceremony with huge bowls at Nara temple

NARA, Japan - A woman drinks tea from a huge tea bowl in the year's first traditional ''Ochamori'' tea ceremony at Saidaiji, a Buddhist temple in Nara, western Japan, on Jan. 15, 2010. The bowls, used in the ceremony which dates back more than 750 years, each measure 30 to 40 centimeters in diameter and weigh 5-7 kilograms.

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