Tankosha Publishing

Tankosha Publishing (株式会社淡交社) is a Kyoto company founded in 1949 that publishes books and magazines centered on the Japanese tea ceremony and Japanese culture, and also sells tea utensils and kimono, runs culture classes and tours, and designs tea houses and gardens.

Tankosha Publishing was founded in Kyoto in 1949 (Showa 24), starting its business with the publication of 'Tankō,' the organ magazine of the Urasenke tea ceremony school. Since then it has continued to work as a publisher and communicator of Japanese culture centered on the tea ceremony. Its corporate name derives from the Zhuangzi phrase '君子之交淡若水' (the friendship of gentlemen is as bland as water). The company has expanded beyond publishing into selling tea utensils, kimono and Japanese sundries, running culture classes and tours, and designing and constructing tea houses and tea gardens.

Publisher and cultural communicator centered on the Japanese tea ceremony and Japanese culture.

• Tankō (monthly tea ceremony magazine)

• Nagomi

• Tankō Text

• Tankō Shinsho

• Tankō Handbook Series

• Tankō Mook

• Tea utensils

• Kimono and Japanese sundries

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