When a tea ceremony instructor in Tokyo was arrested late last year for allegedly defrauding a student, the case highlighted tensions inside Japan’s tightly knit traditional arts schools. Once trust collapses inside such a system, attention often shifts from the underlying problem to the conflict it creates.

As someone who practices 茶道 (sadō/chadō, tea ceremony), I’m familiar with the inner dynamics of such schools, and it was not difficult to imagine お家騒動 (o-ie sōdō, an internal power struggle) simmering beneath the surface.

日本の社会は、信頼関係と暗黙の了解によって成り立っている (Nihon no shakai wa, shinrai kankei to anmoku no ryōkai ni yotte naritatte-iru, Japanese society is sustained by trust-based relationships and tacit understandings).

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