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History
According to 3rd Century A.D.
Japanese literature, green tea was first used as an
elixir to remedy swelling, fever and other symptoms.
The Japanese envoy is thought to have introduced green
tea seeds to China during the Tang Dynasty to be used
by nobility and Buddhist clergy as a medicinal tonic.
In 1191, the Japanese Zen Buddhist monk Eisai returned
from China with a new way to drink green tea. He poured
the stone-ground powdered tea into hot water and stirred
it together – just like today’s Matcha –
then consumed it as a beverage rather than as a medicine.
Recreational tea drinking in Japan later spread beyond
the nobility to the samurai class. The samurai, sworn
protectors of their retaining lords, eventually developed
a green tea ritual meant to bring peace and harmony
to their often violent lives.
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