List of Tea Cultivars Grown in Japan
This list is a list of the cultivars of the teas in our catalog (sometimes not in our catalog as well, but we hope to find a good source). For a list of Japanese teas and terminology, click here.
I give the Japanese hiragana and kanji both when hiragana is more often used in marketing of the tea cultivar in Japan. If there is a cultivar that you have come across not listed, please let us know. We will also go out and source the cultivar (as resources permit).
- Asahi - あさひ / 朝日 -
- Asanoka - あさのか / 朝の香 -
- Asatsuyu - あさつゆ / 朝露 -
- Benifuuki -
- Benihikari
- Benihomare
- Fukumidori
- Gokou
- Hokumei
- Horai Kincha
- Hoshun
- Inzatsu 131
- Kanaya Midori
- Karabeni
- Kirari 31
- Komakage
- Koshun
- Kuritawase
- Meiryoku
- Minekaori
- Nagomi Yutaka
- Nanmei
- Okuharuka
- Okuhikari
- Okumidori
- Okuyuktaka
- Ooiwase
- Saeakari
- Saemidori
- Sai no Midori
- Sakimidori
- Samidori - さみどり / 早緑 -
- Sayama Kaori - さやまかおり / 狭山香 -
- Sayama Midori - さやまみどり / 狭山緑 -
- Shizu #7132 - 静7132 -
- Shoju - 松寿 - "eternal pine"
- Shoshun - 春翔 -
- Shuntaro - しゅんたろう / 俊太郎 -
- Sun Rouge - サンルージュ -
- Terkawa-wase - てらかわ早稲 / 寺川早稲 -
- Tsuyuhikari - つゆひかり / 露光 - "light of the dew"
- Uji Hikari - うじひかり / 宇治光 - "light of Uji"
- Uji Midori - うじみどり / 宇治緑 - "green of Uji"
- Yabukita - やぶきた / 薮北 - "North grove"
- Yama no Ibuki - 山の息吹 - "breath of the mountain
- Yamakai - やまかい / 山峡 - "trough of the valley"
- Yume Wakaba - ゆめわかば / 夢若葉 - "dream of young leaves"
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- Zairai - 在来 - In English terms, this is not a cultivar but rather seeds grown from trees grown from seeds (etc). This means the plants in the field do not have a specific DNA, but are varied (so not a cultivated variety, the definition of cultivar in English). If it is a field of seeds grown from a specific cultivar such as Yabukita, then you add the term missho—so missho yabukita (実生やぶきた).
