Mandokoro Tea has been cultivated for more than 600 years. It is a well-known choice tea with a long history. The “Sankencha” anecdote from around the 16th century tells of Ishida Mitsunari, a native of Omi, offering teas of different temperatures to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who highly praised them. Some say that this tea was Mandokoro tea. It is said that this type of tea had its beginnings when Zen master Ekkei Shukaku, the fifth head priest of Eigen-ji Temple, introduced and encouraged tea cultivation in the Mandokoro area, as it was suitable for tea cultivation. This tea continues to be cultivated from old tea trees that still grow here even today. Some of the trees are more than three hundred years old. Mandokoro tea is grown completely organically, without pesticides, following traditional cultivation methods. It has a clean and refreshing taste.