There are many schools of hand-rolling and each of them has different procedure according to region, but generally, it takes four to seven hours to obtain several hundred grams of green tea at a time and it is hard work that requires muscle strength, so successors are lacking.
手揉みにはチャノキの産地毎に数多くの流派がありそれぞれに手順が異なるが、総じて1回に煎茶数百グラムを得るのに4時間から7時間を要し、力を使う重労働であるために後継者が不足している。