“Ichigo Ichie”
once-in-a-lifetime chance.
Ii Naosuke, a great elder of the Tokugawa shogunate at the end of the Edo period, wrote the phrase ``Ichigo Ichie'' in a book on the tea ceremony, and it spread widely.
I will do my best to be sincere and wholehearted, knowing that this time will never come again.
In the tea ceremony, we value the spirit of "once-in-a-lifetime chance.
“Ichigo Ichie” is a phrase that I should cherish even in my daily life.
