Sony unit puts virtual twist on teaching traditional tea ceremony

New tea room eyes 'evolutionary future' for Japanese cultural touchstone

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Reijiro Izumi, left, president of the tea-ceremony-focused Sabie Cultural Institute, sits in the Jakuin tea room in Kyoto. (Photo by Keiichi Furukawa)

KEIICHI FURUKAWA, Nikkei staff writer

KYOTO -- A unit of Sony Group is applying cutting-edge digital technology to help pass down Japan's centuries-old tea ceremony tradition.

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