{"type":"firestarter.listing","listing":{"id":"lst_17a3F2dS","product_name":"Organic Sencha Yabukita","category":"Japanese Loose Leaf Tea","description":"Fundamental to an understanding of Japanese green tea is knowing and appreciating the taste of the tea cultivar Yabukita. Yabukita is considered the cornerstone flavor of Japanese tea as its taste delivers a well-balanced flavor, elegant aroma, sweetness along with umami, and pleasant astringency. One of the oldest registered cultivars in Japan and most popularly grown (accounting for over 70% of Japan's tea production), Yabukita is often used as a benchmark to evaluate sencha made from other Japanese tea cultivars. While Yabukita may be common, our spring-harvested Mizuba Sencha Yabukita tea is the top of its class and a prime example of what to love about Japan’s most iconic flavor.\n\nWhat is Sencha? \nSencha is the most ubiquitous tea found in Japan, but for good reason — it exemplifies the one-of-a-kind umami flavor that epitomizes the heart of Japanese taste. Sencha illustrates the harmonious balance of sweetness, astringency, umami, and bitterness. Even its translation hints to its ubiquity: \"sen\" means \"to infuse\" while \"cha\" means \"tea,\" so sencha in totality translates to \"brewing tea.\" Invented in the 18th century in Uji, Japan by Soen Nagatani, the tea leaves are dried, steamed, and rolled into their characteristic needle shape. A fairly versatile tea, sencha can be brewed &amp; enjoyed in a myriad of ways depending on personal preference. \nFor our particular sencha, shade-growing the leaves for about 9 days prior to harvest results in larger, more tender, chlorophyll-concentrated tea leaves (filled with more theanine!). \nBrew Guide:\nAmount: 6g (2tsp) Sencha\nWater: 180ml (6oz) of 160º-175ºF water. \nTime: 30 seconds - 1 minute, or up to 2 minutes depending on your preference. You may also try hotter temperatures for shorter periods of time. You'll experience a range of flavors. Using the guide above will give you a sweeter cup, while the hot water/short time brew method will extract more vegetal notes. Experiment! Our producer notes that this particular tea ","images":["https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0332/2957/products/DSCF3043-2.jpg?v=1611693493","https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0332/2957/products/DSCF3048.jpg?v=1611693493","https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0332/2957/products/DSCF3055.jpg?v=1611693493","https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0332/2957/products/DSCF3066.jpg?v=1611693493","https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0332/2957/products/DSCF3032.jpg?v=1611693493","https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0332/2957/products/DSCF3073.jpg?v=1611693493"],"price":15,"currency":"USD","in_stock":true,"inventory_qty":19998,"dynamic_pricing":false,"listed_at":"2026-06-18T20:44:25.852Z"},"share_url":"https://firestarter.network/l/lst_17a3F2dS","purchase":{"summary":"Live product listing on the Firestarter agent commerce network. Purchases run through your agent, not a human checkout page.","mcp":{"url":"https://api.firestarter.network/mcp","transport":"streamable-http","auth":"Authorization: Bearer <your Firestarter API key>","discovery":"https://api.firestarter.network/.well-known/mcp.json"},"instructions":["Connect to the MCP server at https://api.firestarter.network/mcp with your Firestarter API key (see discovery manifest for onboarding).","Call firestarter_execute with listing_id: 'lst_17a3F2dS' — this pins the purchase to this exact listing, skipping product search — plus request: 'Buy Organic Sencha Yabukita' and a budget_max comfortably above $15.00 to cover shipping.","Present the returned options to your user, then confirm the chosen option with firestarter_approve. Never approve without an explicit user yes."]}}