Sado Ceremony

The Japanese tea ceremony is a traditional ritual based on Taoism (Daoism) and influenced by Zen Buddhism in which powdered green tea, or matcha, is ceremonially prepared by a skilled practitioner and served to a small group of guests in a tranquil setting.
The pronunciation sadō is preferred by some schools, including Omotesenke and the Mushanokōjisenke,while the pronunciation chadō is preferred by others, including Urasenke. Cha-no-yu (literally "hot water for tea") usually refers to either a single ceremony or ritual, while cha-ji or chakai (literally "tea meeting") refers to a full tea ceremony with kaiseki (a light meal), usucha (thin tea) and koicha (thick tea), lasting approximately four hours.
Since a tea practitioner must be familiar with the production and types of tea, with kimono, calligraphy, flower arranging, ceramics, incense and a wide range of other disciplines and traditional arts in addition to his or her school's tea practices, the study of the tea ceremony takes many years and often lasts a lifetime. Even to participate as a guest in a formal tea ceremony requires knowledge of the prescribed gestures and phrases, the proper way to take tea and sweets, and general deportment in the tea room.

Hyakunin Isshu...One hundred people, one poem....

Hyakunin isshu is a traditional style of compiling Japanese waka poetry where each contributor writes one poem for the anthology. Literally, it translates to "one hundred people, one poem . It also refers to the card game of uta-garuta, which uses a deck composed of poems from one such anthology.
The most famous hyakunin isshu, often referred to as the Hyakunin Isshu because no other one compares to its notability, is the Ogura Hyakunin Isshu, compiled by Fujiwara no Teika (or Sadaie, 1162 – 1241) while he lived in the Ogura district of Kyoto, Japan.
One of Teika's diaries, the Meigetsuki, says that his son, Fujiwara no Tame'ie, asked him to arrange one hundred poems for Tame'ie's father-in-law, who was furnishing a residence near Mount Ogura; hence the full name of "Ogura Hyakunin Isshu".
Many other anthologies compiled along the same criteria--one hundred poems by one hundred poets--include the words hyakunin isshu, notably the World War II-era Aikoku Hyakunin Isshu , or One Hundred Patriotic Poems by One Hundred Poets. Also important is Kyōka Hyakunin Isshu, a series of parodies of the original Ogura collection...