Family Tradition

Reina's great-great-grandfather was already exporting Shizuoka tea to the outside of Japan more than a century ago. It was the first Japanese green tea known in the world.

Then his great-grandfather inherited the plantation in Shizuoka, which he then left to his grandfather Takejiro, who eventually married his grandmother Sonoko, daughter of a tea shop owner in Shinjuku, Tokyo with whom he had worked for some time. magasin de thé à Shinjuku, Tokyo avec lequel il avait travaillé un certain temps.
Reina's grandmother traveled abroad to offer tea ceremonies, and she saw several photos of her mother leading tea ceremonies while studying in the United States, where her parents met.

The family is very demanding about their products and Reina wanted to be a proud ambassador of a centuries-old culture and know-how. Moreover, the company logo represents the crest of the Sakao family and is called “Yokomokkou. A crest, Mon (紋), is an emblem that identifies an individual, a family, a business or an institution in Japan. (Crests began to be used during the Edo era by the Samurai but from the Meiji era, their use began to become more widespread in Japan, notably for store logos or embroidered on kimonos to identify each person's kimono . )

Whether it is through tea or the accessories that Reina offers on the online store, or during the tea ceremony services that she offers, she is always eager and pleased to see more people interested in her culture of origin. services de cérémonie du thé qu’elle offre, elle a toujours hâte et plaisir de voir plus de gens s’intéresser à leur culture d’origine.