Itadori Teahouse

Japanese knotweed is a plant that grows globally in degraded landscapes, altering ecological and economic systems. Pictured here, knotweed is woven into the form of a squat toilet. Within this meditative vessel complete with running water, Adam served an itadori tea.

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The scatological dialectics of the eastern squat toilet, and the ideological transmission and normalizing of western seat toilets:

http://jominken.kanagawa-u.ac.jp/en/research/Toilet/

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The preparation of itadori as medicinal tea:

https://www.phillyorchards.org/2020/04/22/japanese-knotweed-edible-medicinal-invasive/

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