Japanese tea (Green tea)

Japanese tea is Unfermented tea.
It is different from fermented tea such as English tea, semi-fermented tea such as Oolongtea in China.

There are several kinds of Green tea such as "Sencya","Bancya","Houjicya","Genmaicya","Gyokuro"and"Kabusetya".
They are made from tea leaves and stems.

We put dried tea leaves in the teapot called "Kyusu",
and pouring hot water in it,
and pour it into Japanese tea cup after waiting until a tea leaf opens.

"Matcya" is powdered tea stirred into hot water.
There are two kinds in powderd green tea.
One is strong tea, the other is weak tea.
They are used in the tea ceremony "Sado".

Mugitya (barley tea)

"Mugitya" is a tea made from roasted barley seeds.
Served cold in summer.

甘酒/Sweet drink made from fermented rice

「甘酒」は、お米を原料とした日本の伝統的な甘い飲み物です。
アルコール成分をほとんど含まずソフトドリンクの分類です。
見た目がよく似ている白酒*("Sirozake")はアルコール度数は9％前後でリキュールの分類です。

”Amazake" is Japanese traditional sweet drink made from rice.
It contains little alcohol,so is a kind of soft drink.
It looks like ”Sirozake", Japanese white sake.
The defference between them is that Amazake is a kind of soft drink, and Sirozake is a kind of alcohol drink which has around 9% of alcohol ingredients.