“I’m first generation American, and I’m a fisherman. I come from many generations of fishermen …at least 3. Seafaring in one shape, form, or another.”

Drew Hanson is a licensed teacher of the Urasenke Tradition of Japanese Tea. He demonstrates the Japanese Tea Ceremony throughout the Greater Philadelphia area, and teaches students at Boukakuan Japanese Tea House and Garden in Columbus, New Jersey. I sat in on a couple of his lessons at his tea house, and we talked one afternoon about the tradition.