Wazuka tea is a real tea grown in Chagenkyo.
～Excerpt from the official website of the town of Wazuka～
Taking advantage of the favorable climatic and soil conditions, Wazuka-cho has been cultivating aromatic high-grade sencha since ancient times and still produces nearly 40% of Uji tea.
The history of tea in Wazuka-cho is said to date back to the Kamakura period (1185-1333), when “Jishin Shonin,” a high priest of Kaijusan-ji Temple, received tea seeds from “Myoe Shonin of Tsuganoo,” the founder of the tea industry, and cultivated them at the foot of Washibo Mountain. In the Tensho period (1573-1592), there is a record of a 57-area field in Harayama, Wazuka Township, where tea seeds were sown. Later, in 1738, Nagatani Soen of Ujitawara, a neighboring town of Wazuka, invented a method of tea leaves making, but Wazuka had been making and selling tea since before that time.
There are records of tea production and sales in Wazuka even before that time in a document owned by Daichiji Temple in the town. Tea cultivation increased around that time, and some farmers began to specialize in sencha, and the tea industry in Wazuka has developed even further to the present day as a result of measures to protect tea since the mid-Edo period.
At Kyoto Souen, we are committed to learning from the past. We are cultivating tea while respecting its history and devoting ourselves to its cultivation.