Japanese tea culture : art, history, and practice / edited by Morgan Pitelka.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pitelka, Morgan, 1972-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Japanese tea ceremony.

Tea--Japan--History.

Tea.

Japan.

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

Summary:

main goals of the volume is to apply a broad, critical gaze to Japanese tea culture while avoiding the ponderous discourse common in many English-language studies of tea. It aims to de-center the highly mythologized figure of the tea master Sen no Rikyu, while also disputing the fiction of the dominance of aesthetics over politics in tea. As a whole, this book will appeal to students and teachers of Japanese culture and history, tea practitioners, and collectors of ceramics and other arts influenced by traditional Japanese design. Individual essays will appeal to specialists in more narrowly defined fields, such as the art and history of the Edo period, the material culture of sixteenth-century Kyoto, or modern film studies.

Contents:

Introduction to Japanese tea culture / Morgan Pitelka

Imai s"ky- : commerce, politics, and tea / Andrew M. Watsky

The transformation of tea practice in sixteenth century Japan / Dale Slusser

Shopping for pots in Momoyama Japan / Louise Allison Cort

Sen K"shin S"sa : writing tea history / Morgan Pitelka

Karamono for Sencha : transformations in the taste for Chinese art / Patricia J. Graham

Tea of the warrior in the late Tokugawa period / Tanimura Reiko

Riky- has left the tea room : cinema interrogates the anecdotal legend / Tim Cross

Tea records : Kaiki and Oboegaki in contemporary Japanese tea practice / James-Henry Holland.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0415296870

OCLC:

50693086