The Grand Tea Master : a biography of Hounsai Soshitsu Sen XV / by Herbert Plutschow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plutschow, Herbert E., 1939-2010.

Contributor:

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sen, Sōshitsu, XV, 1923-.

Sen, Sōshitsu.

Tea masters--Japan--Biography.

Tea masters.

Japanese tea ceremony.

Japan.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Malgieri, Nick (donor) (Malgieri Collection copy)

Physical Description:

170 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 27 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

[Trumbull, CT] : [Published by Weatherhill, Inc.], [2001.]

Summary:

Soshitsu Sen is the fifteenth Grand Master of the Urasenke school of Chado, or the Way of Tea, and a cultural leader both in Japan and around the world. Mr. Sen has inherited the seven-hundred-year tradition of Chado and breathed vivid life into it in our century. Author Herbert Plutschow adopts a dual focus on Sen as an individual and a core Japanese cultural institution. He begins his account with a substantial introduction to the Way of Tea, its philosophy and history, and then moves on to the story of Sen's life, beginning with his traditional education and following him through the chaotic war and postwar years into the present, including his very successful promotion of Chado abroad.

Contents:

Part One. Grand Tea Master's Inheritance. Introduction; Tea as philosophy; Tea as an aesthetic; The way of tea and the iemoto system; Teahuts and tea rooms; Tea utensils; Tea procedures; Tea food; Tea flowers; Fourteen generations of grand tea masters

Part Two. Hounsai: the Life of a Grand Tea Master. The life of Hounsai

Part Three. Hounsai as an Arbiter of Taste. Hounsai Konomimono.

Notes:

"First edition, 2001."

"The 'weathermark' identifies this book as a production of Weatherhill Inc., publishers of fine books on Asia and the Pacific. Editorial supervision: Jeffrey Hunter. Book and cover design: Noble & Israel Design. Production supervision: Bill Rose. Printing and binding: Oceanic Graphic Printing. The typeface used is Electra."--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-170).

Local Notes:

Nick Malgieri Culinary Archive and Library copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2015 by Nick Malgieri.

Malgieri Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0834804298 :

OCLC:

48031439