#oi ocha

[mothcub]

Possibly the ultimate self-portrait - me and my beloved plush Oi Ocha-kun 🍀✨️

[yoga-onion]

Spring melancholy makes me want to ride a bus that is not in service

[Images: from ‘Spirited Away’, directed by Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli]

This is a haiku written by a 23-year-old girl living in Tokyo. The brief moment of paradise that you can reach at the edge of the limits of chaotic city life, the moment when everything becomes completely insignificant, is condensed into 3 lines. This languid yet refreshing feeling is gentle, and the work naturally energises you.

‘Oi Ocha’ 🍵 tea-bags’ haiku, part 2 [Ref]. I introduced this piece from the general version of the haiku as it is a very sympathetic piece.

"回送の バスに乗りたい 春の鬱"

これは、東京に住む23歳の女子が詠んだ俳句。混沌とした都市生活の限界の果てにたどり着く一瞬の楽園、すべてが無意味になる瞬間が3行に凝縮されている。この気だるさと爽快感が優しくて、自然と元気が湧いてくる作品だ。

‘おーいお茶’🍵のテーバッグの俳句、第２弾（参照）。とても共感できる作品なので、一般編の俳句からもご紹介してみた。

[zegalba]

Ito En Oi Ocha Green Tea Magazine Ad (1997)

[potsquared]

Ito En Oi Ocha Unsweetened Green Tea #itoen #oiocha #oiochagreentea #伊藤園

[hanjiist]

i got tagged omg!! (i forgot this was a thing)

Tagged by: @levi-robbed-my-tea-cupboard I’m not even sure we interacted before? anyway tysm I feel very flattered, it’s been so long since I’ve done one of these haha

RULES: answer 20 questions, and then tag some more people (arg who will I tag??)

1. NAME: Lucie (nice to meet you uwu) 2. NICKNAMES: I love nicknames but don’t really have any, feel free to interact with me, message me and give me literally any name you want. I’m Lu for my family and a very long time ago I kind of went by Hanji 3. ZODIAC SIGN: Leo but why would you care 4. HEIGHT: 1m68, I’m not far away from Hanji’s height 5. LANGUAGES: French is my mother tongue, but I’m also pretty fluent in English, it’s the language of my studies. I’ve been studying Japanese in school for four years so I’m also quite good at it. I have primitive notions of Korean and German. 6. NATIONALITY: Belgian 7. FAVOURITE SEASON: Summer, I like long vacations, sun and drinking Japanese ice tea (but I love the wind and rain of the shit-weather city I live in rn) 8. FAVOURITE FLOWER: idk sunflower? 9. FAVOURITE SCENT: opening a bottle of Oi Ocha. Bread baking. Vanilla. The smell of the stuffed toys I sleep with. 10. FAVOURITE COLOR: Purple & pink. 11. FAVOURITE ANIMAL: Pigs & elephants (I love these with all my heart aaah... idk if you guys know this pain of absolutely loving animals you basically never see. I somehow manage to come across pigs maybe once or twice a year and I haven’t seen an elephant in like four years) 12. FAVOURITE FICTIONAL CHARACTERS: yasss fiction is my passion~ Mari Ohara from Love Live Sunshine is my ult alongside Hanji Zoe. Then I love all Love Live girls (particularly Ayumu, Rin, Umi, Shizuku and Chika), Salia from Cross Ange, Yuki from Haruhi Suzumiya, and basically everyone from Psycho Pass (Gino, Akane, Shion, Mika, Kei) and Tokyo Ghoul (Tooru, Kaneki, Akira, Hairu). In terms of novels I love everyone from the Count of Monte-Cristo and from Q (by Joumana Haddad). Also Ubu. And Constance from Ocean’s 8. And I’m forgetting so many but anyhow fiction = life 13. COFFEE, TEA, OR HOT CHOCOLATE: Black coffee no sugar, but I also enjoy tea quite a lot and I’m a total sucker for japanese green tea, hot or cold, and traditional macha 14. AVERAGE SLEEP HOURS: 7+ 15. DOG OR CAT PERSON: ewww 16. NUMBER OF BLANKETS YOU SLEEP WITH: I have my duvet and then a Mulan plaid on top of that 17. DREAM TRIP: visiting Uchiura & Numazu in Japan (if everything goes fine I’m going this summer aaah), and then I want to go back to the US with my two high school friends and also I wish to return to an amazing monastery in North Macedonia that’s called St Joakim Osogovski, it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world and I really want to stay there a write a book in this amazing setting 18. BLOG ESTABLISHED: I think around september 2016? 19. FOLLOWERS: 540 (and I’m very proud ok, thank you to everyone from the bottom of my heart) 20. RANDOM FACT: I really like the trolls from David the Gnome for no particular reason

Tagged people: @hanji-the-shitty-glasses @myoceanlivesinyoureyes @chaiiro-me @hanjithenewcommander @meijidamia @shushu3991 I just like your blogs but yeah I don’t really have tumblr friends anymore

[notanotherjapanblog]

When you have to kill time at a conbini: Conbini Log 1

Oi Ocha green tea with limited time Sakura packaging.

New! Interesting strawberry milk drink. 0% juice, but 20% pulp.

Samgyupsal onigiri. Deliciously spicy. Would highly recommend.

“平成” (Heisei) gummies to commemorate the end of the Heisei era on April 30th, 2019 when emperor Akihito will abdicate the throne. #平成最後

The OG Boss Rainbow Mountain Blend can coffee. I don’t usually drink can coffee because it’s usually too sweet or too bitter. Yet sometimes, just sometimes, I see some construction workers or day laborers drinking can coffee on their breaks and they just look so peaceful and chilled out in that moment that I start to crave a can coffee too. Does that make sense?? Lol

[dekitateyo]

Oioi tea bottle design featuring Niigata and Tokushima prefectures! It is said that rice grow particularly well during Niigata's humid summer days, while Awa Odori festival from Tokushima is one of Japan's most famous summer matsuri. The fireworks give an extra summer-ish feel to the package. 

(Talking about rice, here's some extra trivia: both regions are famous for their top-quality rice! Koshihikari rice from Uonuma city, Niigata, and Kashihara rice from Kamikatsu city, Tokushima.)

[mothcub]

My beautiful baguette 🥖