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oapen-20.500.12657-763352023-10-04T13:07:35Z Japanese Tea Culture Kumakura, Isao McClintock, Martha J. Art Asian Japanese Cooking Beverages Coffee & Tea History Asia Japan bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AC History of art / art & design styles bic Book Industry Communication::W Lifestyle, sport & leisure::WB Cookery / food & drink etc::WBX Beverages::WBXN Non-alcoholic beverages bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJF Asian history Why is the tea-room entrance, or nijiriguchi, so narrow? How did the practice of “passing the bowl,” or mawashinomi, come about? And what hidden meaning lies behind the ritual purification of hands and mouth, or chōzu? Chanoyu, the art of preparing tea, developed against a backdrop of social turmoil in late medieval Japan. Through the singular figure of Sen no Rikyū, it found expression as wabi-cha, or wabi tea, the foundation of Japanese tea culture today. Here, scholar and curator Kumakura Isao investigates the unique cultural value of tea. He examines its rituals and behaviors, elaborates its structure, spaces, and style, and delves into the history of everything from the tea whisk to the tea room itself. Drawing on folklore studies and performing-arts history, Kumakura develops a new perspective on Japan’s culture of tea. 2023-09-15T05:31:07Z 2023-09-15T05:31:07Z 2023 book 9784866582467 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/76335 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International external_content.pdf Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture (JPIC) b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9784866582467 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture Knowledge Unlatched open access
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Why is the tea-room entrance, or nijiriguchi, so narrow? How did the practice of “passing the bowl,” or mawashinomi, come about? And what hidden meaning lies behind the ritual purification of hands and mouth, or chōzu? Chanoyu, the art of preparing tea, developed against a backdrop of social turmoil in late medieval Japan. Through the singular figure of Sen no Rikyū, it found expression as wabi-cha, or wabi tea, the foundation of Japanese tea culture today. Here, scholar and curator Kumakura Isao investigates the unique cultural value of tea. He examines its rituals and behaviors, elaborates its structure, spaces, and style, and delves into the history of everything from the tea whisk to the tea room itself. Drawing on folklore studies and performing-arts history, Kumakura develops a new perspective on Japan’s culture of tea.
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