The manufacturing method is almost the same as that of sencha (green tea of middle grade), but its ingredients include tea leaves harvested after the summer (sanbancha [third picked tea leaves], yobancha [fourth picked tea leaves]), tea leaves gathered when branch is shaped for next cultivation (shutobancha [tea leaves picked in autumn and winter]), large leaves (senryu) removed during the sencha manufacturing process.
その製法は煎茶とほぼ同一であるが、原料として夏以降に収穫した茶葉（三番茶・四番茶）・次期の栽培に向けて枝を整形したときの茶葉（秋冬番茶）・煎茶の製造工程ではじかれた大きな葉（川柳）などを用いている。