On Apr 4, 8:17 am, "Dominic T." wrote:
On Apr 4, 10:27 am, Lewis Perin wrote:



DogMa writes:
Alex wrote:
You could use one of these:
http://tea.timzhao.com/CTCOM/teapot/PIC/042.JPG

There's a good demo of this tool in Miyazaki's extraordinary movie
"Spirited Away."

Ah, thanks for reminding me of _Spirited Away_! Just thinking about
it makes me smile.

By the way, there's a memorable tea scene in that movie - *everything*
in that movie is memorable - though it isn't Japanese tea. Charles: I
don't know if there's enough tea in the movie for your purposes, but
sheer greatness has to count, no?

/Lew
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Lew Perin /

I just have to pop in to say that Hayao Miyazaki is pure genius. I own
his entire library as well as anything put out by Studio Ghibli.
Spirited Away is amazing. Some other of note for anyone interested:
Grave of the Fireflies, Howl's Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, Porco
Rosso, and Nausicaa. Also Metropolis is another great Anime.

- Dominic

Yes, good Miyazaki is very much like a good tea - spiritually
fulfilling in the kindest way. I collect his works as well, and have
some very rare stuff on DVD (e.g, Future Boy Conan, Marco, and his
music video "On Your Mark"). I even have his son's first Studio
Ghibli film, Tales of Earthsea.

The tool shown in the photo matches one described in Lu Yu's Ch'a
Ching, used to grind tea leaves for the Tang Dynasty style tea.