Hazuki · First harvest 2026
A Quieter
Kind of
Ritual.
Hazuki is our first-harvest tencha, grown by family-run farms in the hills of Uji. Stone-milled the morning of order and sealed against light — vegetal, sweet, and entirely without bitterness.
The Ceramics
Every piece, handmade. We collaborate with ceramic artisans in Japan, New York, and studios around the world to shape vessels designed for the matcha ritual.
Origin · Uji, Kyoto
Eight hundred years of patient cultivation.
Our tea grows on a single estate in the hills above Uji, where the same families have tended the same plants for thirty generations. Twenty-one days before harvest, the bushes are draped in woven bamboo to deepen chlorophyll and slow the production of catechins — the source of bitterness in lesser teas. What emerges is something closer to silk than to grass.
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