MindKnit Research Center

• 1: Home
• 2: About MindKnit
  • 2.1: MindKnit Board of Advisors
  • 2.2: Moses Max
• 3: TBI, Autism, Cognitive Research
  • 3.1: American Psychiatric Association Institute - VR and Autism
  • 3.2: NY, Davos, Japan Symposia
    • 3.2.1: TBI Confc Gov NY
      • 3.2.1.1: NY TBI Confc_Workshop
• 4: First US-Japan Veterans TBI, Disability Conference
  • 4.2: US-Japan Vets TBI, Autism Exchange: International, Medical, Research, Speaker Bios
    • 4.2.1: Mayer Max, US Co-Chairman, Director, MindKnit Research Center, US
    • 4.2.2: Dr. Reiko Fukatsu, NRCD Japan
    • 4.2.3: Minister Shinoda
    • 4.2.4: Dr. Joel Scholten
    • 4.2.5: Dr. Robert Mays, Jr.
    • 4.2.6: Dr. Michael S. Jaffee
    • 4.2.7: Dr. Stephen Mott
    • 4.2.8: Dr. Anthony Campinell
    • 4.2.9: Jared Max
    • 4.2.10: Mr. Ralph Zaccheo
    • 4.2.11: Dr. Noelle Berger
    • 4.2.12: Dr. William Brim
    • 4.2.13: Dr. Steven Grant
    • 4.2.14: Mr. Michael Snider, Esq.
    • 4.2.15: Sheila Max, RN
    • 4.2.16: Lee Ann Brumble
    • 4.2.17: Burt Nakasone
    • 4.2.18: Patricia Greene-Gumson
    • 4.2.19: Judith Avner, Esq.
  • 4.3: Agenda
  • 4.7: Presentations
  • 4.8: Visit to Japanese Embassy Tea House
  • 4.9: Vets TBI, PTSD, Health Resources
    • 4.9.2: Blast Injury Treatment-Overview
      • 4.9.2.2: Vets Medical & Benefits Links
• 8: July 2010 Maryland: US-Japan Veterans TBI University Reintegration Conference
  • 8.1: (Preliminary) July Veterans TBI University Agenda
  • 8.2: VA National Study Supported Education
• 8: July Veterans TBI University Reintegration Experts
  • 8.1: Charles Drebing CV
  • 8.2: Sharon Crowder - CV
• 10: Nov 2010 Tokyo Japan-US TBI Conference
• 11: Ambassador Shinoda US-Japan Disabilities Cooperation Speech

Visit to Japanese Embassy Tea House

Ippakutei Tea House at the Embassy of Japan

The Ippakutei Tea House is considered one of the greatest of its kind outside of Japan.  Named Ippakutei, meaning "Tea House of the Hundred Years," it was built in 1960, the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the Japan-US Treaty of Amity and Commerce.  To sign this treaty, Japanese representatives came to Washington, DC for the very first time in 1860 to visit President James Buchanan, marking Japan's first diplomatic mission to the United States since Commodore Matthew Perry had opened Japan in 1854.

Tea houses are the structure in which the host, or tea master, serves tea to guests.  The tea master mixes a frothy, thick green tea in front of the guests one by one in an exacted, ritualized fashion and this is called a tea ceremony.  While tea ceremony is a traditional Japanese art, most Japanese people do not practice it today; those who do apprentice under tea masters.  Tea houses and tea gardens are considered a rarity.

The purpose of Ippakutei is to showcase tea gardens and tea houses as an aspect of traditional Japanese culture.  The designs of both the tea house and its garden, therefore, incorporate many authentic forms that are seen in famouse tea houses and gardens from Japan.