Japanese tea culture : art, history, and practice

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From its origins as a distinct set of ritualised practices in the sixteenth century to its international expansion in the twentieth, tea culture has had a major impact on artistic production, connoisseurship, etiquette, food, design and more recently, on notions of Japaneseness. The authors dispel the myths around the development of tea practice, dispute the fiction of the dominance of aesthetics over politics in tea, and demonstrate that writing history has always been an integral part of tea culture.  Read more... Abstract: From its origins as a distinct set of ritualised practices in the sixteenth century to its international expansion in the twentieth, tea culture has had a major impact on artistic production, connoisseurship, etiquette, food, design and on notions of Japaneseness. The authors dispel the myths around the development of tea practice.  Read more... Content: Cover Title page Copyright page Dedication page Contents List of figures Notes on contributors Acknowledgments Introduction to Japanese tea culture 1 Commerce, politics, and tea: the career of Imai Sōkyū (1520-1593) 2 The transformation of tea practice in sixteenth-century Japan 3 Shopping for pots in Momoyama Japan 4 Sen Kōshin Sosa (1613-1672): writing tea history 5 Karamono for sencha: transformations in the taste for Chinese art 6 Tea of the warrior in the late Tokugawa period 7 Rikyū has left the tea room: national cinema interrogates the anecdotal legend. 8 Tea records: kaiki and oboegaki in contemporary Japanese tea practiceSelect bibliography Index.