{"id":31913,"date":"2015-02-18T15:07:59","date_gmt":"2015-02-19T01:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=31913"},"modified":"2021-09-30T15:50:23","modified_gmt":"2021-10-01T01:50:23","slug":"hidden-gem-restored-for-future-generations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2015\/02\/18\/hidden-gem-restored-for-future-generations\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden gem restored for future generations"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vLiHWDRGuXE\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Since the early 1970s, the <a href=\"http:\/\/manoa.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M&#257;noa<\/a> Japanese tea house has served as an educational resource for thousands of students who have studied the art of the Japanese tea ceremony. <\/p>\n<p>Nestled in the idyllic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eastwestcenter.org\/about-ewc\/campus-maps\/japanese-garden\">East-West Center Japanese Garden<\/a>, the tea ceremony house named Jaku&#8217;an, &ldquo;hut of tranquility&rdquo; is one of the first tea houses built outside of Japan. <\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_31918\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-31918\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tea-house.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"257\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31918\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tea-house.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/tea-house-260x167.jpg 260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-31918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The blessing ceremony on February 13 of the reopening of Jaku&#8217;an with from left, Genshitsu Sen, <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa Chancellor Robert Bley-Vroman and Kahu Kelekona Bishaw.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In 1972 Genshitsu Sen, a 15th generation grand tea master saw the need for an authentic tea ceremony house or chashitsu in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>. Through his vision and monetary support, the chashitsu was pre-cut and erected in Japan, then dismantled and shipped to <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> where it was reconstructed by five Japanese craftsmen. <\/p>\n<p>Jaku&#8217;an celebrated a reopening in 2015 after undergoing renovations, once again funded by Sen. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;This is one of the only campuses in the nation where students can study Japan and Japan cultural studies in a comprehensive way,&rdquo; said <strong>Mary McDonald<\/strong>, director of <abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/cjs\/\">Center for Japanese Studies<\/a>. &ldquo;Here we have a way to study tea, the way of tea in an authentic Japanese tea house. This is a very unique opportunity among campuses across the nation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><abbr>UH<\/abbr> M&#257;noa celebrated the reopening of the campus&#8217; tea ceremony house.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[777,776,134,258,9,56],"class_list":["post-31913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-asian-studies","tag-center-for-japanese-studies","tag-international","tag-school-of-pacific-and-asian-studies","tag-uh-manoa","tag-video-2","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31913"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148978,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31913\/revisions\/148978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}