New York
Japanese Tea Tasting - Evening Edition
Intimate Guided Tea Tasting with 7th-Generation Tea Farmer
Usal and Gentle Artefacts bring you an intimate evening centered around a guided tea tasting with a visiting tea farmer and brewer from Japan - Yoshiharu Matsushita, .
Guests will gather over welcome beverages before moving through a thoughtfully curated progression of teas, from traditional preparations to innovative sake-based and sparkling expressions that Matsushita has spent the last decade developing.
Small bites from a local chef accompany the tasting, creating a relaxed, shared-table feel. The evening unfolds through conversation and curiosity, offering space to experience how lineage and experimentation meet—and how the future of tea is being shaped.
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02/18
Time
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM
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Gentle Artefacts
Gentle Artefacts is a Japanese tea brand cultivated in Kyoto and curated in Brooklyn, rooted in reconnecting people to ritual and the landscapes that sustain us. Shaped by years spent moving between Japan and New York in close relationship with tea farmers, Gentle Artefacts helps bring these producers to the U.S. to share their craft, perspective, and practice.
The Farmer
Yoshiharu Matsushita is a 7th-generation tea farmer and president of Matsushita Tea Garden, a family-run organic tea farm in Shizuoka, Japan, founded in 1915. His work bridges traditional cultivation with innovative tea-making, from classic matcha and sencha to contemporary sparkling and sake-based tea expressions. Grounded in a belief that great tea begins in healthy, living soil, Matsushita’s approach honors ecology, craft, and the ongoing evolution of Japanese tea.
