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★Chiran-no-midori Okuichiban★ This green tea is made in Chiran. This tea is one of a blend tea which has sweety such as concentrate delicious air in Tiran. It contain mainly Okuyutaka leaves which characteristic is elegant aroma and tasty, Yabukita leaves and Asatsuyu leaves. On first drink you will be surprise at its sweety. |
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★Kirameki-no-shizuku Asaichiban★ This green tea is made in Chiran. This tea is one of a high-grade blend tea which contain a lot of Asatsuyu leaves. Asatsuyu leaves have an another name "natural Gyokuro". Because its condition of growth is too hard, it become one of rare valuable leaves in Japan. Kirameki-no-shizuku has very beautiful shiny color of water. |
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★Chiran-no-megumi Yabuichiban★ This green tea is made in Chiran. This contain Yabukita which represent Green tea leaves. It is easy for inexperienced people to drink. |
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★Hojyun Satsuma-no-tsurugi★ This green tea is made in Chiran. Ichibancha is the first picking leaves of the year. And Mirume is the small top of Ichibancha, so it is small in quantity. This is the luxurist tea which contain Mirume leaves. Its looking is just soft and young. Water color is fresh green, aroma is elegant, taste is mild and Umami is strong. This tea give a joy in the first of spring. |
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★Tsukushidake Tiran-no-benifuuki★ This tea is made in Chiran. Benifuuki is a kind of tea leaves which is watched with keen interest for improving effect of an allergy symptom, for example hay fever. |
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★Matsumoto-Hanzucha★ This green tea is made in Matsumoto. Hanzucha is a kind of Iricha. It is roasted in water-jug which is called Hanzu on the oven and rolled several times out of Hanzu. It need a long experience for the quantity of leaves, adequate temperature, roast time, adjustment rolling and so on. Hanzucha has unique smell of fermentation. To enjoy Hanzucha is difficult for inexperienced people. |
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★Midori-no-takumi RyokutyaDensetsu★ This green tea is made in Shibushi. This tea a kind of Fukamushicha. Fukamushicha is said generally that its rough taste become smaller and sweet taste become more strong but its aroma is more week. However the farmer has the greatest technique of making who is sometimes called a top or second farmer in Kagoshima Prefecture, and its taste rich with deeply aroma. It is just craftsmanship. Takumi in Japanese means Craftsman in English. Midori means green. So Midori-no-takumi means Craftsman of Green tea. And Ryokutya means green tea. Densetsu means Legend. So that RyokutyaDensetsu is equal to the legend of green tea.。 |
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★Inishie-no-seirei EizaiMonogatari★ This green tea is made in Shibusi. This tea is also a kind of Fukamushicha. The best leaves choosed from all leaves are made over high heat. It smells fragrant and taste coll. |
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★Ougonmitsu Kodama★ This tea is made in Shibusi. I was moved when I drunk this tha at the forst time. How sweet it was! The fist pot was very sweet as a sugared water, the second pot express Umami strongly and the third pot taste rich with comfortable rough. From the first pot to the third pot, this tea change well. This is made by a traditional method. |
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★Kin-no-Kaimonmidori★ This tea is made in Ei. Gold water color is best for green tea. The good tea water is shining gold. This tea is made from the 50% Yabukita tea leaves and the 50% Saemidori tea leaves which is the most popular now. It somehow give a nostalgic sense, but it is new. |
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★Murasaki-no-Kaimonmidori★ This tea is made in Ei. The farmer seeks the beauty golden water color at this tea too. It is made from the Yabukita tea leaves mainly, the Yutakamidori tea leaves, the Okumidori tea leaves and the Saemidori tea leaves. The farmer regard the balance of taste as the most important thing, the tea has a old familiar taste. They never follow the newest fashion and seek the real green tea. It is best for a small relax. |
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★Sennenkaikyou Hama-no-midori★ This green tea is made in Shibushi. This is the tea which blended Yutakamidori, Yabukita and Asatsuyu leaves. It reconciled with the substantial taste and the smooth feeling in throat. It is the extravagant tea which uses the earliest tea leaves only. |
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★KirishimaKabusecha Kirikage★ This green tea is made in Kirishima. This Kirishima tea is sometimes called Gyokuro made in Kagoshima. This Kabusecha is stronger shade the light than general Kabusecha, so its tea contain the condenseed nutrients. It has the strongest Umami and body, and taste well. We has asked often what seasoning contain in the tea, but no seasoning are in. This tea has really deep Umami. |
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★KirishimaShinzan Kirishimamegumi High★ This green tea is made in Kirishima. The best leaves which are grown up at the base of a mountain of Kirishima is processed by a traditional mean. This have strong Umami. |
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★KirishimaShinzan Kirishimamegumi Premium★ This green tea is made in Kirishima. This tea is made by the same method of the above-mentioned tea. When you observe thier leaves, you will found wounderful quality soon. |
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★Powder green tea Kirisame★ This green tea is made in Kirishima. This tea is a powder green tea which has a strong Umami. The farmer grinds carefully with a stone mortar after they get an order, so its aroma always fresh. Its bitter taste is stronger than the common Matcha a little. To add milk and drink as a green tea au lait is the best for the person who is poor at bitterness. It is the popular tea which is full of the marine blessing. |
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★New Green Gyokuryokucha TamaguriHachijyuuhachiya★ This green tea is made in Kanoya. The tea is a standard of Tamaguricha. It has a young and spiring green's aroma. |
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★Green Magatama FukamushiTamaguricha★ This green tea is made in Kanoya. This Fukamushi tea is rare for Tamaguricha. It is with features of both Tamagiricha which has only a little rough and Fukamushicha which taste mild and calm. |
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★Matcha★ This green tea is made in Kanoya. Matcha is rare tea in Kagoshima. It taste more bitter than a common Matcha made in Kyoto. So to add milk is better for people who are not good at drinking bitter tea. It is produced no-agricultural chemicals and organic method, so it include rich nutrition. |
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★Meiji-no-Zanmu Satsumaisami★ This green tea is made in Isa. This tea has a strong sweet taste. Especially on the fisrt pot it feels very sweet. It has also Umami. In common it is said that when the tea is changed quality higter people don't feel the change, but when it is changed quality lower people should find the chang. But people don't have to compare this tea with cheaper tea. They will realize the wonderful taste. |
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★Satsuma-no-Kouhou Kakurakuen★ This green tea is made in Izumi. This tea is made from the Yabikita leaves mainly and Asatsuyu leaves. It looks a common green tea, but it has an intersting taste. It has Umami aroma. It tastes bitter, but the taste is soft. It is a new taste. The farmer selected the highest class's tea leaves for this tea. |
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★Satsuma-no-Homare Kohmeien★ This green tea is made in Izumi. This green tea has also a strange taste. It taste too new so that we want to name "Profound Mystery tea" as same as the above green tea. It has strong Umami. And it tastes more intersting than the tea. It is made from the Yabikita leaves mainly. The farmer selected the highest class's tea leaves for this tea. |
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★TyouHashiriShincha YakunoAkebono★ This green tea is made in Yakushima. Because Kagoshima is a southern country, Shincha season begin about one month earlier than another place of production. Yakushima is one of first harvest place of production in Kagoshima. The earist tea leaves are very soft. Please enjoy the aroma of a walk in the woods. |
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★Yakushima green tea YakunoMidori★ This green tea is made in Yakushima. This is a standard tea made form safety leaves of healthy tea woods. |
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★Matcha au lait★ Kirishimacha green tea is used for the Matcha au lait. Its tastes is between sweet of milk and bitter of green tea. |
Leaves | Classification | First pot | Second pot | Third pot | |||
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Chiran-no-midori Okuichiban | royal road | Gold | aweet and rough in a body but feel them individually. | Young grass | sweet and bitter. | Young grass | bittersweet. |
Kirameki-no-shizuku Asaichiban | royal road | Young grass | sweet. beautiful green water color. | Young grass | taste royal road. | Green | slightly bitter. |
Chiran-no-megumi Yabuichiban | royal road | Green | sweet with rough. | Young grass | bittersweet. mild. | Gold | sweet and bitter. |
Hojyun Satsuma-no-tsurugi | royal road | Gold | strong sweet and soft bitter. | Young grass | sweet and bitter. | Green | clear bitter. |
Tsukushidake Chiran-no-benifuuki | bitter | Gold | bitter. | Gold | fruity. | Gold | slightly bitter. |
Kin-no-Kaimonmidori | royal road | Gold | think Umami. sweet. | Gold | Umami and bitter. | Gold | good balance. king of green tea. |
Murasaki-no-Kaimonmidori | royal road | Gold | strong sweet and Umami with moderate bitter. | Gold | bitter stronger. | Gold | bitter weak. apper small Umami again. |
Matsumoto-Hanzucha | savory | Gold | clear water color. has fragrant aroma. sour and ferment smell. | Gold | mild fragrant aroma. | Gold | slightly bitter. |
Midori-no-takumi RyokutyaDensetsu | sweet | Young grass | sweet with Umami. | Green | appear bitter. | Green | rough. |
Inishie-no-seirei EizaiMonogatari | sweet. | Young grass | sweet with strong rough. | Young grass | mild rough. | Gold | rough. |
Ougonmitsu Kodama | sweet | Young grass | sweet. Umami. | Young grass | slightly bitter. | Young grass | slightly bitter. |
Sennenkaikyou Hama-no-midori | Umami | Young grass | strong Umami and sweet. | Young grass | good balance between 5 tastes. | Green | light bitter and small rough. |
KirishimaKabusecha Kirikage | Umami | Gold | sweet. strong Umami. | Gold | Umami with small rough. | Gold | bitter. |
KirishimaShinzan Kirishimamegumi High | Umami | Gold | Umami with sweet and rough. complicated taste. | Gold | keep good balance. | Gold | bitter. |
KirishimaShinzan Kirishimamegumi Premium | Umami | Gold | Umami with rough. | Gold | Umami with rough. | Gold | Umami with rough. |
New Green Gyokuryokucha TamaguriHachijyuuhachiya | royal road | Gold | bittersweet. | Gold | a little bitter and rough. | Gold | bitter. |
Green Magatama FukamushiTamaguricha | royal road | Gold | mild sweet such as the leaves merge into the tea. | Young grass | mild rough. | Young grass | like Matcha. |
Meiji-no-Zanmu Satsumaisami | sweet | Gold | strong sweet with Umami. | Gold | light bitter. | Young grass | good balance between 5 tastes. |
Satsuma-no-Kouhou Kakurakuen | royal road | Gold | aroma of Umami. soft Umami and bitter. | Gold | bitter. | Gold | good balance between 5 tastes. |
Satsuma-no-Homare Kohmeien | sweet | Gold | strong Umami. funny taste. | Gold | clear taste. | Gold | bitter. |
TyouHashiriShincha YakunoAkebono | bitter | Gold | small sweet. rough. | Gold | bitter. | Gold | rough. |
Yakushima green tea YakunoMidori | bitter | Gold | Umami with sweet and bitter. | Gold | bitter. | Gold | bitter. |