Steaming tea leaves

Steaming tea leaves

1875 - 1895

color prints (photographs)

Japan; green tea

Entitled "Steaming Tea" by the photographer (Kusakabe Kimbei?). Two workers lay out tea leaves onto long trays, while two others tend a stove used in the process of making sencha (steeping) tea.

Pitts Theology Library

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