Malena Higashi
Malena Higashi is a practitioner of Chadō, here known as the tea ceremony. She is a graduate of Urasenke Kyoto's “Midorikai” program and is vice president of Urasenke Argentina. It organizes tea ceremony meetings and teaches the workshops “Hot water for tea” and “A Japan of its own.” She is also a teacher at the Argentine Japanese Nichia Gakuin Institute, has a degree in Literature from the University of Buenos Aires and is a journalist.
Last updated May 2021
Stories from This Author
The tea ceremony in the south - part 2
May 6, 2021 • Malena Higashi
Read part 1 >> The second scene has to do with the final period of my studies in Japan. In a meeting with Okusama, the wife of Iemoto Sen Soshitsu XVI, the current Grand Master of the Urasenke School, my colleague Freddy from Taiwan asked what things we should keep in mind when returning home. She responded that we had learned our foundation there, that we should never forget it. And that, naturally, we would have to adapt some issues …
The tea ceremony in the south - part 1
May 5, 2021 • Malena Higashi
Walk The first thing you learn in the tea ceremony is to walk. Which is like saying, learning to carry the body. Walk with stealthy movements, with the gait of a light body, with discreet and short steps. When I see my teachers move it seems as if they were floating slightly in the air, but their presence is not ethereal, quite the opposite: they are very firmly on the earth and their wisdom accumulated by experience and the passage …
