The gardens have tsukubai (purification basins), but we only use these during occasional tea gatherings. Each morning we change the water to keep them clean, and to prevent mosquitoes breeding!
Atsuko-san poses for a photographer in the teahouse garden.
During the summer we mostly keep the doors to the garden closed beside the tea room. Not only does this keep the cool air inside, it also traps the mosquitoes outside.
Atsuko-san throws open the doors to the teahouse garden to enjoy a quiet matcha moment.