Soen visited Edo with the completed tea and consigned the sale of the tea to a tea dealer, Kahei YAMAMOTO and the tea immediately became popular and, since then, 'Uji no sencha' (green tea from Uji) came to represent Japanese tea.
宗円は完成した茶を携えて江戸に赴き、茶商の山本嘉兵衛に販売を託したところ、たちまち評判となり、以後「宇治の煎茶」は日本を代表する茶となった。