Today we were able to spend time with Kanabayashi-san, a tea friend who is the 16th Generation President of a 500 year old tea company! Kanabayashi’s ancestors were personal friends of the great tea master Sen-no-Rikyu who you can see in the scroll behind our own Tea Docent, Nez, and Kanabayashi-san. His family served as the elite tea supplier to the Shoguns “Tokugawa” which makes our connection even more personal. We will be posting an in-depth interview addressing some of the issues a family and business with this type of lineage must overcome to survive and prosper!
