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Design

okyo Saryo is a Japanese green tea brand
established in 2016, offering the highest
WORLD’S FIRST HAND-DRIP T quality of sencha with brewing in the best
methods, focusing on temperature and extraction
rate, in other words it is the first brand store of
“green brewing”. Hand-drip green tea shop was
GREEN TEA designed by LUCY ALTER DESIGN, a design duo,
Satoshi Aoyagi and Mikito Tanimoto, based in
Tokyo. They reinterpreted tea-ceremony room by
SHOP omitting things and focusing on brewing the tea.
Tokyo Saryo offers a tea tasting course:
guests can get to compare two different types of
green tea by first steeping(70 degrees ℃), sec-
ond steeping(80 degrees ℃) of each and third
steeping(80 degrees ℃) with roasted rice
(Genmai-cha), 6 cups in total.
As Mikito Tanimoto says: “We are very wary
of using myopic Japanese motifs/shapes/patterns,
because in this century people don’t use such
things anymore. But it is important to make it
simple, which is a better way to show Japanese
design, so people can feel our culture and spiritu-
ally, not just see something material. That is why
we needed to make things flat and simple at the
point of human cognition, things are supposed to
be simple in two ways: ‘look simple’ and ‘be struc-
turally simple’. In my opinion, “being structurally

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