Represents a major advance over previous publications.... Students will find this volume especially useful as an introduction to the primary sources, terminology, and dominant themes in the history of chanoyu. --Journal of Japanese Studies Tea in Japan illuminates in depth and detail chanoyu's cultural connections and evolution from the early Kamakura period... It is the quality of seeing the familiar and not so familiar elements of tea emerge as a dynamic saga of human invention and cultural intervention that makes this book exhilarating and the details that the authors provide that make these essays fascinating. --Journal of the Association of Teachers of Japanese
Author(s): Paul H. Varley; Kumakura Isao
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Year: 1989
Language: English
Pages: 285
Contents
Preface
Divisions of Japanese History
Part One: History of Chanoyu
1. The Development of Chanoyu: Before Rikyū
2. Sen no Rikyū: Inquiries into His Life and Tea
3. Chanoyu and Momoyama: Conflict and Transformation in Rikyū’s Art
4. The Early Europeans and Tea
5. Kan’ei Culture and Chanoyu
6. Chanoyu: From the Gentroku Epoch to Modern Times
7. The Wabi Aesthetic through the Ages
Part Two: Commentaries
8. Reflections on Chanoyu and Its History
9. On the Future History of Tea
10. The Historial Significance of the Way of Tea
Glossary
Contributors
Index
