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Suu Kyi in Japan

KYOTO, Japan - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (R) takes part in a tea ceremony with Sen Genshitsu (L), former grand master of the Urasenke Japanese tea ceremony school, at the Konnichian tea house in Kyoto on April 15, 2013. (Kyodo)

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Japanese tea ceremony master dies

File photo taken in April 2019 shows Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of the Urasenke Japanese tea ceremony school, serving tea during a ceremony at the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization headquarters in Paris. He died on Aug. 14, 2025, at age 102.

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Japanese tea ceremony master dies

File photo taken in April 2023 shows Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of the Urasenke Japanese tea ceremony school, giving a lecture in Osaka, western Japan. He died on Aug. 14, 2025, at age 102.

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Japanese tea ceremony master dies

File photo taken in Tokyo in October 2023 shows Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of the Urasenke Japanese tea ceremony school. He died on Aug. 14, 2025, at age 102.

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New Year tea ceremony in Kyoto

The Urasenke school of Japanese tea ceremony holds a New Year tea ceremony at a teahouse in Kyoto on Jan. 7, 2024.

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New Year tea ceremony in Kyoto

The Urasenke school of Japanese tea ceremony holds a New Year tea ceremony at a teahouse in Kyoto on Jan. 7, 2024.

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New Year tea ceremony in Kyoto

Sen Soshitsu XVI, grand master of the Urasenke tea ceremony school, prepares tea for guests at a New Year ceremony at a teahouse in Kyoto on Jan. 7, 2024.

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New Year tea ceremony in Kyoto

Sen Soshitsu XVI, grand master of the Urasenke tea ceremony school, prepares tea for guests at a New Year ceremony at a teahouse in Kyoto on Jan. 7, 2024.

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Ex-Japanese tea ceremony school head talks about wartime experience

One-hundred-year-old Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of the Urasenke Japanese tea ceremony school, gives an interview in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2023, talking about his wartime experience as a kamikaze pilot following the mobilization of college students into the Japanese military.

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Ex-Japanese tea ceremony school head talks about wartime experience

One-hundred-year-old Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of the Urasenke Japanese tea ceremony school, gives an interview in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2023, talking about his wartime experience as a kamikaze pilot following the mobilization of college students into the Japanese military.

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Ex-Japanese tea ceremony school head talks about wartime experience

One-hundred-year-old Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of the Urasenke Japanese tea ceremony school, gives an interview in Tokyo on Oct. 5, 2023, talking about his wartime experience as a kamikaze pilot following the mobilization of college students into the Japanese military.

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Former Japanese tea ceremony school head at U.N. HQ

Photo taken from UN Web TV footage shows 100-year-old Sen Genshitsu, a former grand master of Urasenke, one of the leading Japanese tea ceremony schools, and a UNESCO goodwill ambassador, presenting ceremonial tea offering for peace at the U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 13, 2023.

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Former Japanese tea ceremony school head in Sydney

One-hundred-year-old Sen Genshitu, a former grand master of Urasenke, one of the leading Japanese tea ceremony schools, serves tea at a ceremony in Sydney on June 9, 2023.

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Former Japanese tea ceremony school head in Sydney

One-hundred-year-old Sen Genshitu, a former grand master of Urasenke, one of the leading Japanese tea ceremony schools, delivers a speech in Sydney on June 9, 2023.

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New Year tea ceremony in Kyoto

Sen Soshitsu XVI, grand master of the Urasenke tea ceremony school, prepares tea for guests at a New Year ceremony at a teahouse in Kyoto on Jan. 7, 2023.

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New Year tea ceremony in Kyoto

Sen Soshitsu XVI, grand master of the Urasenke tea ceremony school, prepares tea for guests at a New Year tea ceremony at a teahouse in Kyoto on Jan. 7, 2023.

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New Year tea ceremony in Kyoto

The Urasenke school of Japanese tea ceremony holds a New Year tea ceremony at a teahouse in Kyoto on Jan. 7, 2023.

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New Year tea ceremony in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - The Urasenke school of Japanese tea ceremony holds a New Year tea ceremony with guests invited from the business and political worlds in the city of Kyoto, western Japan, on Jan. 7, 2015. Around 2,200 people have been invited over six days of the ceremony starting the same day.

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New Year tea ceremony in Kyoto

KYOTO, Japan - The Urasenke school of Japanese tea ceremony holds a New Year tea ceremony with guests invited from the business and political worlds in the city of Kyoto, western Japan, on Jan. 7, 2015. Around 2,200 people have been invited over six days of the ceremony starting the same day.

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Sen Genshitsu conducts 'kencha shiki' in Sao Paulo

SAO PAULO, Brazil - Japanese tea master Sen Genshitsu, the previous and 15th grand master of the Urasenke school of Japanese tea ceremony, conducts a "kencha shiki" or tea-offering ceremony in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Aug. 30, 2014, during an event to mark the 60th anniversary of branches he established in South America and Mexico.

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Tea ceremony in Mexico

MEXICO CITY, Mexico - Sen Genshitsu, grand tea master from Japan's Urasenke school, performs a tea ceremony at the Church of San Francisco in Mexico City on Jan. 23, 2014.

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Tea for peace

SYDNEY, Australia - Former Urasenke school tea ceremony master Sen Genshitsu offers tea for the war dead in a ceremony for peace aboard a vessel off Sydney, Australia, on May 7, 2013. A submarine of the former Japanese navy sunk during World War II lies on the seabed below.

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Tea for peace

SYDNEY, Australia - Former Urasenke school tea ceremony master Sen Genshitsu (R) makes tea for the war dead in a ceremony for peace aboard a vessel off Sydney, Australia, on May 7, 2013. A submarine of the former Japanese navy sunk during World War II lies on the seabed below.

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Suu Kyi in Japan

KYOTO, Japan - Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi (R) takes part in a tea ceremony with Sen Genshitsu (L), former grand master of the Urasenke Japanese tea ceremony school, at the Konnichian tea house in Kyoto on April 15, 2013.

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New Year's tea ceremony

KYOTO, Japan - The Urasenke tea ceremony school's first tea ceremony gathering of the year is held at the Konnichian tea house in Kyoto on Jan. 7, 2013.

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New Year's tea ceremony

KYOTO, Japan - Sen Soshitsu (far L), grand master of the Urasenke tea ceremony school, serves green tea to guests at the school's first tea ceremony gathering of the year at the Konnichian tea house in Kyoto on Jan. 7, 2013.

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60th anniv. of San Francisco Peace Treaty

SAN FRANCISCO, United States - Sen Genshitsu (L front), former grand master of the Urasenke Japanese tea ceremony school, performs a tea-offering ceremony in prayer for peace and friendship between Japan and the United States in San Francisco on Sept. 8, 2011, the 60th anniversary of the signing of the 1951 San Francisco Peace Treaty and the Japan-U.S. security treaty. The ceremony, hosted by the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco, took place in the same room where then Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida signed the bilateral security treaty 60 years ago in a building that used to belong to the U.S. military.

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Tea culture symposium in Beijing

BEIJING, China - A speaker addresses an audience at the sixth East Asia tea culture symposium in Beijing on May 10, 2011. The symposium, initiated in 2004 by Sen Genshitsu, former head of the Urasenke Japanese tea ceremony school, is intended to enhance friendship and mutual understanding in East Asia through tea culture.

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Kan attends New Year tea ceremony

TOKYO, Japan - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (C) attends a New Year tea ceremony in Tokyo on Jan. 16, 2011. After having tea prepared by Sen Soshitsu XVI (L), head of the Urasenke school of Japanese tea ceremony, Kan said, ''The color (of the tea) was beautiful and it was tasty.'' (Pool photo taken by Kyodo News)

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New Year's tea ceremony

KYOTO, Japan - Sen Soshitsu (L), grand master of the Urasenke tea ceremony school, serves green tea to guests at the school's first tea ceremony gathering of the year at the Konnichian tea house in Kyoto on Jan. 7, 2011. Grand masters of other tea ceremony schools as well as local government and business leaders, including Kyoto Gov. Keiji Yamada, took part in the ceremony.

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New Year's tea ceremony

KYOTO, Japan - Sen Soshitsu (L), grand master of the Urasenke tea ceremony school, serves green tea to guests at the school's first tea ceremony gathering of the year at the Konnichian tea house in Kyoto on Jan. 7, 2011. Grand masters of other tea ceremony schools as well as local government and business leaders, including Kyoto Gov. Keiji Yamada, took part in the ceremony.

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Urasenke school holds its 1st tea ceremony of year

Kyoto, Japan - Sen Soshitsu (L), grand master of the Urasenke tea ceremony school, serves green tea to guests at the school's first tea ceremony gathering of the year at the Konnichian tea hut in Kyoto's Kamigyo Ward on Jan. 7, 2010. Grand masters of other tea ceremony schools as well as local government and business leaders, including Kyoto Gov. Keiji Yamada, took part in the ceremony.

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Japanese master performs tea ceremony in Cuba

HAVANA, Cuba - Japanese tea master Sen Genshitsu (R) teaches young people in Cuba how to serve Japanese tea during an event in Havana on Nov. 22, 2009. Over 400 people in the audience also saw Sen, a former head of the Urasenke school, perform the tea ceremony at the event to mark the 80th anniversary of bilateral relations.

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Men in search of healing turn to tea ceremonies

TOKYO, Japan - Men participate in a tea ceremony class taught by Sowa Akiyama (far L), a teacher at the Urasenke tea school in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Sept. 14.

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Urasenke group holds its 1st tea ceremony of year

KYOTO, Japan - Sen Soshitsu, grand master of the Urasenke tea ceremony group, serves green tea to guests at the school's first tea ceremony gathering of this year at the Konnichian tea hut in Kyoto's Kamigyo Ward on Jan. 7. About 30 people including Kyoto Gov. Keiji Yamada took part in the ceremony.

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Japanese tea ceremony performed in UAE

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - Japanese women (L side, standing) serve tea to local female students in Abu Dhabi on Oct. 20 during a traditional Japanese tea ceremony held under Sen Genshitsu, former head of the Urasenke school. Events to introduce the Japanese tea ceremony by the school, which began Oct. 18, are the first to be held in the Middle East region.

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Japanese tea ceremony performed in UAE

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - A Japanese woman (L) serves tea to a local female student in Abu Dhabi on Oct. 20 during a traditional Japanese tea ceremony held under Sen Genshitsu, former head of the Urasenke school. Events to introduce the Japanese tea ceremony by the school, which began Oct. 18, are the first to be held in the Middle East region.

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Texan not cramped in tiny 'chashitsu' tearoom workplace

KYOTO, Japan - Gary Soka Cadwallader (L) teaches his students ''chado,'' the way of tea, in the ''chashitsu'' (tearoom) at the Urasenke school of tea in Kyoto. Cadwallader, from Texas, was made a tea master in the summer of 1997 by the Urasenke house, one of the three Sen families that have been practicing chado since the 16th century. By Isao Morishita

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Japan hosts tea ceremony at U.N. as prayer for world peace

NEW YORK, United States - Japan's ceremonial tea master Sen Soshitsu (3rd from L) performs a traditional Japanese tea ceremony at the United Nations before 230 world dignitaries on Sept. 14 and offeres it as prayer for world peace. Sen, the 15th-generation grand master of the Urasenke school of the art of tea, offered the peace prayer by ceremoniously placing a bowl of freshly brewed Japanese tea on a peace monument at the U.N. delegates lounge.

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New Year tea ceremony in Kyoto

Sen Soshitsu XVI (4th from L), grand master of the Urasenke tea ceremony school, serves green tea to guests at a New Year tea ceremony in Kyoto on Jan. 7, 2022.

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New Year tea ceremony in Kyoto

Sen Soshitsu XVI (back), grand master of the Urasenke tea ceremony school, serves green tea to guests at a New Year tea ceremony in Kyoto on Jan. 7, 2022.

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New Year tea ceremony in Kyoto

The Urasenke school of Japanese tea ceremony begins a series of New Year tea ceremonies in the western Japan city of Kyoto on Jan. 7, 2016. Around 2,200 people are expected to attend the Kyoto ceremonies held until Jan. 12, followed by additional ceremonies at the school's facility in Tokyo. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Australian PM Turnbull attends Japanese tea ceremony

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull (L) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe enjoy tea served by Sen Soshitsu, head of the Urasenke school of Japanese tea ceremony, at the Urasenke Tokyo branch office in the Japanese capital on Dec. 18, 2015. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tea ceremony wishing for world peace

Sen Genshitsu, the 92-year-old former grand master of the Urasenke school of tea ceremony, displays "the way of tea" during a ceremony wishing for world peace and friendship between Japan and the United States at the official residence of the Japanese ambassador to the United States in Washington on Aug. 18, 2015. The ceremony commemorated the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tea ceremony wishing for world peace

Sen Genshitsu, the 92-year-old former grand master of the Urasenke school of tea ceremony, displays "the way of tea" during a ceremony wishing for world peace and friendship between Japan and the United States at the official residence of the Japanese ambassador to the United States in Washington on Aug. 18, 2015. The ceremony commemorated the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tea ceremony wishing for world peace

Sen Genshitsu, the 92-year-old former grand master of the Urasenke school of tea ceremony, displays "the way of tea" during a ceremony wishing for world peace and friendship between Japan and the United States at the official residence of the Japanese ambassador to the United States in Washington on Aug. 18, 2015. The ceremony commemorated the 70th anniversary of the end of World War II. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tea master Sen Genshitsu shows "way of tea" in China

Sen Genshitsu (L), former grand master of the Urasenke school of chado, displays "the way of tea" in front of Chinese students at Beijing Foreign Studies University on June 25, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tea master Sen Genshitsu gives lecture in China

Sen Genshitsu, former grand master of the Urasenke school of chado, gives a lecture at Beijing Foreign Studies University on June 25, 2015, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the establishment of the university's Beijing Center for Japanese Studies. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Tea master Sen Genshitsu lectures in China

Sen Genshitsu, former grand master of the Urasenke school of chado, lectures at Beijing Foreign Studies University on June 25, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Visitors use hand mills in tea ceremony at Expo Milano Japan Pavilion

Visitors use hand mills to prepare tea powder at an Urasenke school-organized Japanese tea ceremony demonstration held at the Japan Pavilion in Expo Milano 2015 on May 1, 2015. The Japan Pavilion, built on a tract of land of about 4,170 square meters, is the largest of its kind among participating countries. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo