A type of green tea from Japan, made without grinding the leaves unlike Matcha tea. Processing involves steaming the tea leaves.
The ceremonial surrounding the drinking of Sencha is known as the Way of Tea - in English as the Japanese tea ceremony.
Senchadō (The Way of Sencha): Like the formal art surrounding matcha, there is a formal art surrounding sencha, which is distinguished as senchadō (煎茶道). Generally it involves the high-grade gyokuro class of sencha.
See also
- Japanese tea
- Sencha tea ceremony
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