In May we head to Uji (宇治), the historic centre of Japanese tea, for a Matcha-iri Sencha (抹茶入り煎茶) from Horii Shichimeien (堀井七茗園). It is a tea built from a first-flush Uji matcha ground on a stone mill, and a Sencha chosen by the same garden master to match it. Byōdō-in