Japan Tea Gardens & Tea Country Coloring Book

About this book

Sixty real tea fields of Japan — and every one of them ready to color.

This book travels Japan's tea country from east to south, and every stop is a real place in its real landscape: the endless green sea of the Makinohara plateau, tea fields rolling beneath Mount Fuji at Obuchi Sasaba and Imamiya, the great 'Cha' character hedge of Kakegawa, the shaded tencha fields of Uji where matcha is born, the gyokuro gold of Kyotanabe, the matcha fields of Nishio, the sky-high terraces of Kasuga and Takachiho, the terraced gardens of Hoshino and Higashisonogi above the Ariake Sea, and the great Kagoshima fields of Chiran stretching to the horizon under Mount Kaimon.

Every subject appears as a two-page spread: on one side, a full-color photo guide with a short, fascinating story — the district's history, its tea, its landscape, and exactly how to color it — and on the other, a detailed coloring page of the very same view, converted from the real photograph so the scene you color is the scene itself.

Inside you will find: • Shizuoka, the capital of Japanese tea — Makinohara, Kawane on the Oi River, the Fuji foothills, Kanaya and the Tokaido tea towns • The old tea heartland of Kyoto, Nara and Shiga — Uji, Minamiyamashiro, Asamiya, Tsuchiyama and the sky-high Kamigare plantation • The matcha and mountain teas of Aichi and Gifu — Nishio, Shirakawa in the Mino highlands, and the terraced fields of Kasuga • Kanto and Shikoku teas — Sayama, Ashigara, Murakami (Japan's northernmost tea town), the fermented teas of Otoyo and the Awa Bancha village of Kamida • Kyushu's great tea country — Yame, Ureshino's neighbors Tara and Takeo, Chiran, Kirishima and Takachiho • 60 full-color photo guides with the story of each place (about 86–105 words each) • None of these sixty subjects appeared in our previous Japan coloring books

Sixty tea fields, one long journey through the green country — bring pencils, and take your time.

Written and created in Japan by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu. Published by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC, a Japanese publisher in Hokkaido, Japan. Authentic Japanese content, carefully made in Japan — not mass-produced.