The Japanese Teahouse

The Japanese Teahouse
Title The Japanese Teahouse PDF eBook
Author Wolfgang Fehrer
Publisher Niggli
Pages 232
Release 2019-10-31
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9783721209976

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All about the architecture and design principles of a very private place to communicate and meditate from its origins until today.

Stories from a Tearoom Window

Stories from a Tearoom Window
Title Stories from a Tearoom Window PDF eBook
Author Shigernori Chikamatsu
Publisher Tuttle Publishing
Pages 151
Release 2011-12-20
Genre Literary Collections
ISBN 1462902561

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The 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

The Japanese Tea Garden

The Japanese Tea Garden
Title The Japanese Tea Garden PDF eBook
Author Marc Peter Keane
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2014
Genre Architecture
ISBN 9781611720150

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Impeccably written, erudite . . . likely to remain the standard work on the subject.--Kyoto Journal

The Teahouse Fire

The Teahouse Fire
Title The Teahouse Fire PDF eBook
Author Ellis Avery
Publisher Penguin
Pages 484
Release 2007-12-04
Genre Fiction
ISBN 9781594482731

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“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.

Tea Culture of Japan

Tea Culture of Japan
Title Tea Culture of Japan PDF eBook
Author Sadako Ohki
Publisher
Pages 116
Release 2009
Genre Art
ISBN

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Examines 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.

Mindful Design of Japan

Mindful Design of Japan
Title Mindful Design of Japan PDF eBook
Author Michael Freeman
Publisher Thames & Hudson
Pages 0
Release 2015
Genre Chashitsu (Japanese tearooms)
ISBN 9780957471757

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The 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.

Making Tea, Making Japan

Making Tea, Making Japan
Title Making Tea, Making Japan PDF eBook
Author Kristin Surak
Publisher Stanford University Press
Pages 274
Release 2012-11-28
Genre Social Science
ISBN 0804784795

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The 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.