On sunday July 10, Azumaya will openup a popup-shop ath the Tanabata festival in the Japanese garden in Hasselt. The weather is looking promising, so see you all there! https://www.facebook.com/events/1509082459385494

On June 27, an ikebana demonstration by the 10th Headmaster of the Mishoryu, Mr. Keiho Hihara, was held at the JICC. He explained about “kakubana” (traditional style) and “shinka” (new style) and gave a demonstration by making four different works. Many attendants took notes and pictures with great enthusiasm. Afterwards, a lively Q&A session was […]

During the Josei event at the Japanes garden in Hasselt, Azumaya opened a pop-up tea-café and teashop in the Japanese garden. Visitors could enjoy degustaions of many of our different Japanese gren tea’s, as wel as a tasting of our Japanese sweets.

Azumaya was invited to make a presentation and to offer a tasting to 15 Ambassdors wifes. They highly appreciated our presentation and appreciated the quality of our tea. In the meanwhile, some of them (and their husbands) became our regular customers!  

During Heritage day, Azumaya offered tea to the vistors of Momu, the Antwerp fashion museum. Because the theme of Heritage day was ‘Rituals’, we also organised several tea ceremonies during this event. Tijdens erfgoeeddag organiseerde Azumaya Japanse theeceremonies in Momu, het Antwerps modemuseum. Slået op af Azumaya i Tirsdag den 10. maj 2016 <iframe src=”https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmomuantwerp%2Fposts%2F10154127376361737%3A0&width=500″ […]

Momu –  Antwerp fashion museum, organised an exposition of the famous Kubota Kimono’s. During the opening event, with a speach by the Japanese Ambassodor to Belgium, Azumaya served real Japanese green tea to the guests of this event. <iframe src=”https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fmedia%2Fset%2F%3Fset%3Da.10154118080951737.1073741861.71950471736%26type%3D3&width=500″ width=”500″ height=”723″ style=”border:none;overflow:hidden” scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ allowTransparency=”true”></iframe>

Azumaya organized a company event for Shu Uemura in the concept ‘Modern, inspired by tradition. We organized a tasting of real japanese green tea prepared in a modern way, next to a traditional tea ceremony. There was also a keynote speech about omotenaschi, Japanese hospitality. Further we also offered a sake tasting and sushi catering […]

Azumaya during ohanami in Hasselt

On March 11 Azuaya served Japanse green tea during the 5-year tsunami memorial event in the Japanese garden in Hasselt. Also on Saturday and Sunday during the memorial weekend, Azumaya will serve tea.

On March 10 Azumaya made a keynote speech in the beautiful Nootebohm heritage library. After the speech there was an tea ceremony introduction and demonstration by Helena Kieckens, student of Ura senke Belgium.