Chado the Way of Tea

Chado the Way of Tea
Author: Sasaki Sanmi
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 790
Release: 2011-10-18
Genre: History
ISBN: 1462900364

Chado the Way of Tea: A Japanese Tea Master's Almanac is a translation of the Japanese classic Sado-saijiki, first published in 1960. Covering tea-related events in Japan throughout the year, Master Sasaki provides vignettes of festivals and formal occasions, and as well as the traditional contemplative poetry that is a part of the tea ceremony. Each chapter covers variations in the tea ceremony appropriate for a single month, including: Themes and sentiments—tea gatherings at night, under the moon, on snowy days, and many others. Special events—describing major tea festivals such as Hina-matsuri and yasurai-matsuri. Flowers with tea--a list of 250 flowers, divided by season with an explanation of how they are incorporated into the tea ceremony. Cakes—descriptions and ingredients of moist and dry cakes and toffees used in the tea ceremony. Meals for tea—the meal, kaiseki, accounts for almost a third of any formal tea ceremony. This section includes at least two proven menus for each month. Words—seasonal words, poetic names for utensils, and nature words used in the tea ceremony. The book also includes reproductions of almost 100 Japanese paintings produced by the famous tea practitioner Hara Sankei, with over 1,000 Japanese poems, and a glossary of over 500 specialized terms related to the tea ceremony.

The Japanese Way of Tea

The Japanese Way of Tea
Author: Sen Sōshitsu XV
Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1997-12-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780824819903

Almost a millennium before the perfection of chado (the Way of Tea) by Sen Rikyu (1522-1591), the Chinese scholar-official Lu Yu (d. 785) wrote exhaustively about tea and its virtues. Grand Tea Master Sen Soshitsu begins his examination of tea's origins and development from the eighth century through the Heian and medieval eras. This volume illustrates that modes of thinking and practices now associated with the Japanese Way of Tea can be traced to China--where from the classical period tea was imbued with a spiritual quality.

The Korean Way of Tea

The Korean Way of Tea
Author: Brother Anthony (of Taizé)
Publisher: Seoul Selection USA, Incorporated
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2007
Genre: Cooking
ISBN:

Nonfiction. Asian Studies. Tea. Tea drinking is now a global pastime and a delectable variety of teas are much sought after by connoisseurs worldwide. In this meditative volume to understanding, appreciating and serving Korean tea, authors Brother Anthony of Taize and Hong Kyeong-hee share their intimate knowledge of a cultural practice and art form, that at its core embraces universal principles of peace, refinement, and simplicity. THE KOREAN WAY OF TEA is a rich and inviting text, accompanied by full-color photographs of the beauty of Korea, her architecture, nature and people. This introductory guide is a welcome addition for anyone interested in tea and its extraordinary contribution to the Korean cultural tradition.

Cha-No-Yu

Cha-No-Yu
Author: A. L. Sadler
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2011-07-26
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1462901913

This classic of Japanese cultural studies explains the famous Japanese tea ceremony or cha-no-yu with great scholarship and clarity. In 1933, when A. L. Sadler's imposing book on the Japanese tea ceremony first appeared, there was no other work on the subject in English that even remotely approached it in comprehensiveness or detail. Having attained something of the stature of a classic among studies of Japanese esthetics, it has remained one of the most sought-after of books in this field. It is therefore both a pleasure and a privilege to make it available once again in a complete and unabridged digital version The tea culture book is abundantly illustrated with drawings of tea ceremony furniture and utensils, tearoom architecture and garden design, floor and ground plans, and numerous other features of the cha-no-yu. A number of photographic plates picture famous tea bowls, teahouses, and gardens.

The Way of Tea

The Way of Tea
Author: Rand Castile
Publisher: Weatherhill, Incorporated
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1971
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

The Book of Tea

The Book of Tea
Author: Kakuzo Okakura
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
Total Pages: 110
Release: 2006
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 1425000533

The Book of Tea is a brief but classic essay on tea drinking, its history, restorative powers, and rich connection to Japanese culture. Okakura felt that "Teaism" was at the very center of Japanese life and helped shape everything from art, aesthetics, and an appreciation for the ephemeral to architecture, design, gardens, and painting. In tea could be found one source of what Okakura felt was Japan's and, by extension, Asia's unique power to influence the world. Containing both a history of tea in Japan and lucid, wide-ranging comments on the schools of tea, Zen, Taoism, flower arranging, and the tea ceremony and its tea-masters, this book is deservedly a timeless classic and will be of interest to anyone interested in the Japanese arts and ways. Book jacket.

The Spirit of Tea

The Spirit of Tea
Author: Sen Soshitsu
Publisher: Weatherhill, Incorporated
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2003-04
Genre: Cooking
ISBN:

The Urasenke Way of Tea dates back to its founder, Sen no Rikyu (1522-1591) who perfected the tea ritual he learned from his teacher and passed it to his heir and on down to modern times. This discourse presents the procedures and implements the Way of Tea with step-by-step instructions.

Making Tea, Making Japan

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

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.

The Teahouse Fire

The Teahouse Fire
Author: Ellis Avery
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 484
Release: 2007-12-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781594482731

“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.

A Chanoyu Vocabulary

A Chanoyu Vocabulary
Author: 淡交社編集局
Publisher:
Total Pages: 306
Release: 2007-10
Genre: Japanese tea ceremony
ISBN:

グローバル時代の茶道手引書