Initially, the term 'sencha' literally meant 'tea for decoction,' with which the tea was prepared through the extraction of ingredients by decocting tea leaves in hot water, so that preparation for drinking tea wasn't as easy as today's method of using a kyusu (a small teapot).
当初の「煎茶」は文字通り「煎じる茶」の意味で、茶葉を湯で煮出すことによって成分を抽出するため今日のように急須で手軽に淹れられるものではなかった。