{"type":"firestarter.listing","listing":{"id":"lst_DM5R5Ymo","product_name":"KABUSE HOUJICHA | green","category":"Tea","description":"KABUSE HOUJICHA is a kabuse karigane houjicha from Wazuka, Kyoto prefecture, Japan. \"Kabuse\" denotes a tea shaded for up to 20 days, a growing technique in which tea trees are artificially blocked from sunlight with nylon or hand-woven reed tarps to stress the plants and increase production of compounds that contribute to flavor and aroma. \"Karigane\" is a type of stem tea, made from the twigs sorted out during gyokuro or high-grade sencha production (this is distinct from \"kukicha\", stem tea made from bancha or lower-grade sencha). Houjicha (\"roasted tea\") is any Japanese tea that undergoes a roasting process—typically bancha or kukicha, though teas not usually roasted can also be made into houjicha. All three classifications belong to this lot from Nakai Seichajo, one of our producing partners in Uji specializing in intensively processed Japanese standards. KABUSE HOUJICHA is born of material harvested in May-June (after shading) under direction of T. Suzuki-san, processed to its mother tea (kabuse sencha) by H. Suzuki-san, refined and sorted by Matsumura-san, and slowly roasted by Kawaguchi-san. Most Japanese tea is a team effort, and Nakai's team is among Uji's finest.\nFor the uninitiated, \"processed\" is a given in Japanese teas and has no negative connotations; most teas from the archipelago are heavily processed using advanced machinery. The quality differential between them is the mastery of the operating hands at each stage, and an eye for quality producers spend decades developing. In Nakai's case, producing houjicha from kabuse/karigane material is laborious, low-yield work, painstakingly managed from field to factory for discerning domestic buyers—and us. Unlike most sorted-out material and roasted tea productions, KABUSE HOUJICHA is not a recycling effort; it's an expression of singular mastery in cultivation, processing, and roasting. It's as good as houjicha gets.\nIf you know us, you know we don't use claims of health effects to sell tea. That said, Jap","images":["https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0178/6381/products/kabusedrycropped.jpg?v=1675370054","https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0178/6381/products/kabusewetcropped.jpg?v=1675370056","https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0178/6381/products/kabuseliquorcropped.jpg?v=1675370056"],"price":32,"currency":"USD","in_stock":true,"inventory_qty":29997,"dynamic_pricing":false,"listed_at":"2026-06-18T20:46:17.353Z"},"share_url":"https://firestarter.network/l/lst_DM5R5Ymo","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_DM5R5Ymo' — this pins the purchase to this exact listing, skipping product search — plus request: 'Buy KABUSE HOUJICHA | green' and a budget_max comfortably above $32.00 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."]}}