The mission of Mellow Monk Green Tea is to provide our customers with green tea grown and processed by family-owned and -operated farms in Japan. This blog is a forum for presenting not just information about our green tea and our growers, but also topics related to this mission, including green tea in general, health and wellness, and philosophies conducive to living a mellow life. This blog also covers Japan: the people, the culture, and all things Japanese.
A blog reader sent in a link to a very brief but good overview of the history of tea—not just green tea, but all teas. (You can find a longer history of green tea in Japan here on the Mellow Monk website.)
Incidentally, the monk Saicho mentioned in the overview is the one-and-the-same Saicho after whom Mellow Monk is named—his name, literally translated, means "supreme tranquility." That sounds like somewhere I'd like to be.
—Mellow Monk
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