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“古人说: 要积了三辈子的阴德，才能闻得奇楠香, 要八辈子修来的福气，才可品或饮用奇楠香。”

2088Tea is now the Official Kyarazen retail page

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Hello all, another sincere apology for the slowness in writing... it's hard to balance doing so many things at one go now. But good news! KyaraZen is now expanding a little, and soon we will have one or two other writers whom will be sharing knowledge on Chinese cultural arts, which may include brush painting, incense, calligraphy, guqin music, etc! But I thought I would write this post because there had been several concerned enquiries about a certain 2088Tea page that had its soft launch a couple of months ago. Friends were wondering if that was really an official page of mine and yes indeed it is! I've now stopped using ETSY but instead will be using my own e-commerce site at 2088Tea.com where we will be sharing with you a myriad of treasures and experiences! For this month, the KZ team had been very hardworking in making incenses and here are some of the examples of the handmade incenses available for the month, all made from selected and excellent raw materials, and if ... [Read More...]

Wuyi Cliff Tea Part 3 – A Tea Maker that cannot be helped

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This is Part 3 of the Wuyi Cliff Tea Series. Read Wuyi Cliff Tea Part 1 and Wuyi Cliff Tea Part 2 - Complexities here. It all started with a canister of tea (containing 75 grams) in a hand-beatened/hammered tin container. Tea leaves enclosed in calligraphy rice paper, sealed with a sticker with an image of a handsome, scholarly chinese man. It was a tea brought back by my student, the price tag was hefty, and always, such prices always hit my "skepticism" nerve, and also made me worry that my student might have been ripped off. Carefully weighing out six grams, into a thin walled Jingdezhen egg shell porcelain gaiwan, fresh water off the boil, intense and hurried steeps, and as the first gust of the tea's aromatics hit everyone........ It was the first Cliff Tea I had ever had, that had an intense siberian musk note, leading on complex florals and heavy mineral notes. For the "qigong" practitioners and others whom had greater sensitivity present at the tasting, the tea was a ... [Read More...]

Wuyi Cliff Tea Part 1

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This is Part 1 of a series on Wuyi Cliff Tea. Read about Wuyi Cliff Tea Part 2 - Complexities and Wuyi Cliff Tea Part 3 - A Tea Maker that cannot be helped.   There are 36 peaks at the Wuyi Mountains, and 99 valleys are formed by these ... [Read More...]

KZ ventures into oils

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We at the KZ team had been deliberating this for a very very long time. Every time we meet a trader, a merchant, a supplier, a distiller, a farmer, we see a diverse range of wares to which we are incredibly selective and meticulous. Part to why ... [Read More...]

  • Can i be embarassed to say that my student’s packaging is soooo much nicer and better than mine?! 😝 #incense #oud #agarwood #seishodo
  • Beauty just arrived! New damascus steel incense wood shaving knife custom made by @tankae92 😘 wondering if i should commission him to make the full incense tool set 🤔#knife #agarwood #aloeswood #gaharu #香道
  • 问世间琴为何物。琴道之路变幻莫测。asking the world, what Qin (guqin) really is. The path of qin is full of bends, sometimes we are caught in circles, sometimes we think we are in the right direction to fall into a dead end. #guqin #古琴 #music #sealcarving #篆刻 #书法 书道
  • Seal stones, Flea market stuff in Japan. 日本地摊货。整批收下了，对不知者只是一堆石头，对我来说是买下了自己因年龄的关系遇不到的时期时代。#sealcarving #篆刻 #stones #书法 #书道
  • Preparing Samples of Sinking phillipines to be given out foc to all 2088orders that had missed out on this incense. I was initially going to keep a nice 5g tube for myself but have instead decided to share it ☺️. Incense stencil will also be given as samples. Sincere apologies for the glitches on the site for some users 😰and please give us two to three working days to process your orders (with excess shipping definitely refunded). We at 2088tea hope to serve you all better and will strive to improve over the flaws we may have. #kyarazen #incense #agarwood #oud #2088tea
  • Looking through the inventory for the month for reloading the webstore on the night of the 24th 11pm gmt+8. Glad that my student had been working hard, this month she is offering a tarakan and a manaban incense, both from heartwood materials. We also have Sinking Phillipines in 2 flavours, one monkoh style which burns at a lower temperature, and the regular one which is rather bold in profile. The sinking material is sourced from a new but excellent oud company, @alhashimi_oud Al-Hashimi oud. KZ has also created on special request of a vegetarian friend, whom wanted a pureland incense inspired by David Oller’s writings on scent and emotion transmutation. She requested for no fermentation and no animal products used in the pureland incense and i tweaked it for a few iterations before i’m satisfied with it. Also an incense made exactly to the recipe from Tang Dynasty over a thousand years ago, 供佛印香 recipe for incense stencilling as a powder, and KZ made it to the exact specifications and ingredients, not omitting the 茅香 grass. This incense has been purported to help one focus 😝. All incenses appear to average below $30/tube for this month, (the sinking phil incenses are 3g tubes, sorry 5g tubes will put us way below cost 😝) and reiterates the KZ vision and motivation, handmade incenses of the finest qualities, reasonable/fair margins, and the spirit of sharing good scents. There may also be some coarse tarakan/brunei heartwood powder for heating purposes. #incense #沉香 #oud #aloeswood #agarwood #kodo #香道