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Machiko Soshin Hoshina
Machiko Soshin Hoshina is long-term practitioner of Chado, Japanese tea ceremony, and professor of Urasenke tea tradition. With her personal family background as descendant of Daimyo, samurai lord family, 19th generation of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, and with her rich global experiences since her childhood, tea ceremony presentation she offers in English exclusively riceiving highest reputations form Royal families, embassies, company’s CEOs as international guests to Japan.
She is an artist, producer, researcher, author and mother of three children. She conducted the TEA for PEACE tea ceremony with attendance of commissioner generals from the five continents at Osaka Expo 2025. Through her research studies at Tokyo University of the Arts (2023-2025), her current creative interest is to connect tradition to modern society through tea ceremony activities. She is working with several socially engaged art projects – Mobile Tea Room (2025), Zaifu Tea Gathering (2024), Reviving Old Imari Project at Loosdorf Castle, Austria (ROIP, 2022) etc.
Biography
Machiko Soshin Hoshina was born in Tokyo, Japan, to the Daimyo (Lord of Samurai) family line of the Edo era which spans 800 years of history. Japanese feudal lords were the patrons of the tea ceremony and related fine arts. She received a big influence from her family background including her mother who is a tea master, her grandmother who was a Sumie artist and whose birth was the Tokugawa Shogun family, and her great grandmother who served as a chief court lady of the Empress Showa and whose birth was the former House of Imperial Prince Kitashirakawa.
She was educated in Gakushuin, while spending her childhood in the U.S. and high school days in Australia as an exchange student of AFS. She received her B.A. from Keio University and is currently a research student at the Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts. Her research interests include engaging traditional culture with modern society, practical use of Chado to build international communication between Japanese and non-Japanese and the relationship between Chado and mindfulness.
VIP Tea Ceremony Experiences
TEA for PEACE, Osaka Expo 2025, Joradan Pavilion, 2025
Govonor of Lower Austria, Osaka Expo 2025, Austrian Pavilion, 2025
Exporttag, WKO, Vienna, 2024
Embassy of Colombia, Tokyo, 2025
YPO Hwaii, Tokyo, 2024
Brithish Royal family, Tokyo, 2023
YPO Gold, Kyoto, 2023
Embassy of Japan, Vienna, 2023, 2024
Schönbrunn Palace Garden Tea Ceremony, Vienna University of Technology, 2023
Summer Reception, Japanese Ambassador’s Residence, Austria, 2023
Broken Collection, Loosdorf Castle Tea Ceremony, University of Applied Arts, Vienna, 2023, 2024
Japonisme 2018, AREThe Festival, Paris, 2018
Science Center World Summit 2017, Miraikan, National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, 2017
Japan Expo Premium Sri Lanka, Colombo, 2017
and more
Art Projects
Madhafa and Zaifu, Osaka Expo, Jordan Pavilion, 2025
Zaifu tea ceremony, Tokyo University of the Arts, 2024-2025
Reviving Old Imari Porcelains Project at Loosdorf Castle, Austria (ROIP), Founder, 2018-2022
ONCE UPON NOW 1873-2023, Johanna Riedl, Tokyo University of the Arts, Embassy of Austria in Japan, 2023
Exhibition Tour “Tragedy of Loosdorf Castle – Destruction and Rebirth of Old Imari Porcelains – , Okura Art Museum, Tokyo, 2020, Aichi Prefectural Ceramic Museum, 2021, Hagi Uragami Museum, 2021, Kyushu Ceramic Museum, Saga, 2022
G20 Osaka Summit, Spouse Program, 2021
COME BACK FOR MORE!, “Broken Collection” Workshop, Vienna University of Applied Arts, Loosdorf Castle, Austria, 2023
Tea House HETEROTOPIA, Vienna University of Technology, Loosdorf Castle, 2023
and more
Reviving Old Imari Porcelains at Loosdorf Castle, Austria
Hoshina is a founder of ROIP project – Reviving Old Imari Porcelains at Loosdorf Castle, Austria. She met the family who owns the ten-thousand shards collection which has been kept in an old castle without being known. The project was led by Japanese female volunteers, homecoming of shards to Japan, supported the exhibition tour and led to a big success. Through the project, the broken collection connected people of both nations, beyond generation, as a war memorial and a symbol of peace.
Publications
GA Journal, Graduate School of Global Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts, 2024, 2025
“as it is”, Mitsumura Suiko Shoin, 2021
“Eigo DE Chanoyu”, Tankosha, 2018
Media
Japan Times, August 2025
MONOCLE, April 2025
Timeless Tokyo .”Your Own Private Tea Ceremony” , “Your Very Own Tea Ceremony With A Great Mater”
Tea ceremony with Japanese cuisine .
HOBONICHI Techo, “The Art of Living”
NHK, “Destroyed Porcelain Unites People in Peace”
Japan Times, “Porcelain Shards serve as stark reminder of war”
Contact
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