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Author: Wolfgang Fehrer
Publisher: Niggli
Published: 2019-10-31
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9783721209976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAll about the architecture and design principles of a very private place to communicate and meditate from its origins until today.
Author: Shigernori Chikamatsu
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2011-12-20
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 1462902561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Japanese tea ceremony blends art with nature and has for centuries brought harmony to the daily life of its practitioners. Stories From a Tearoom Window is a timeless collection of tales of the ancient tea sages, compiled in the eighteenth century. Both longtime adherents and newcomers to the tea ceremony will be fascinated by these legends, anecdotes, bits of lore and history that so aptly express the essence of tea. Many of these stories center around the lives of the great tea masters. First among them is Sen no Rikyu, who perfected the tea ceremony and embodies its poise, modesty and refinement. Among the famous tales recounted here are those of Rikyu's morning glory tea ceremony and of his tragic death. Darker presences of the great warlords Nobunaga and Hideyoshi, who sponsored and also abused Rikyu, are manifest as well. Holding to the tea ceremony's core ideal of natural simplicity, author Shigenori Chikamatsu brings to the page stories which touch on the related arts of ceramics, poetry, Zen, calligraphy, and the origins of everyday items of Japanese life such as the cotton tabi split-toed socks and the bento lunchbox. Chapters include: Tearooms in the Old Days Flowers in the Tea Garden The Origins of Tea Iori's Tea Scoop Famous Lacquerers The Legacy of Rikyu's House The Tea Ceremony for Warriors
Author: Marc Peter Keane
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Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781611720150
DOWNLOAD EBOOKImpeccably written, erudite . . . likely to remain the standard work on the subject.--Kyoto Journal
Author: Ellis Avery
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2007-12-04
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13: 9781594482731
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Like attending seasons of elegant tea parties—each one resplendent with character and drama. Delicious.”—Maxine Hong Kingston The story of two women whose lives intersect in late-nineteenth-century Japan, The Teahouse Fire is also a portrait of one of the most fascinating places and times in all of history—Japan as it opens its doors to the West. It was a period when wearing a different color kimono could make a political statement, when women stopped blackening their teeth to profess an allegiance to Western ideas, and when Japan’s most mysterious rite—the tea ceremony—became not just a sacramental meal, but a ritual battlefield. We see it all through the eyes of Aurelia, an American orphan adopted by the Shin family, proprietors of a tea ceremony school, after their daughter, Yukako, finds her hiding on their grounds. Aurelia becomes Yukako’s closest companion, and they, the Shin family, and all of Japan face a time of great challenges and uncertainty. Told in an enchanting and unforgettable voice, The Teahouse Fire is a lively, provocative, and lushly detailed historical novel of epic scope and compulsive readability.
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Published: 1893
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes rooms and prices for tea at the Japanese tea house at the Chicago Exposition.
Author: Kristin Surak
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012-11-28
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0804784795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe tea ceremony persists as one of the most evocative symbols of Japan. Originally a pastime of elite warriors in premodern society, it was later recast as an emblem of the modern Japanese state, only to be transformed again into its current incarnation, largely the hobby of middle-class housewives. How does the cultural practice of a few come to represent a nation as a whole? Although few non-Japanese scholars have peered behind the walls of a tea room, sociologist Kristin Surak came to know the inner workings of the tea world over the course of ten years of tea training. Here she offers the first comprehensive analysis of the practice that includes new material on its historical changes, a detailed excavation of its institutional organization, and a careful examination of what she terms "nation-work"—the labor that connects the national meanings of a cultural practice and the actual experience and enactment of it. She concludes by placing tea ceremony in comparative perspective, drawing on other expressions of nation-work, such as gymnastics and music, in Europe and Asia. Taking readers on a rare journey into the elusive world of tea ceremony, Surak offers an insightful account of the fundamental processes of modernity—the work of making nations.
Author: Michael Freeman
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780957471757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Japanese tea-ceremony, or Way of Tea, is one of the most profound manifestations of mindfulness. The ceremony, with its roots in Zen Buddhism, dates as far back as the 15th century and takes place within a traditional tea-ceremony room. Here, in a fully updated edition of 'New Zen', are 40 outstanding examples of contemporary Japanese tea rooms, many located within private homes.
Author: Sadako Ohki
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 116
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the importance of Japanese tea culture and the ways in which it has evolved over the centuries, with photographs and detailed explanations of the Tea Culture of Japan exhibit organized by the Yale University Art Gallery.
Author: Werner Blaser
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Published: 1956
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Freeman
Publisher: Damiani Limited
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 248
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of the most modern Japanese chashitsu (tea-ceremony rooms), a type of architecture established in the fifteenth century and reinterpreted by modern Japanese architects.
