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Rediscovering Rikyu and the beginnings of the Japanese tea ceremony
- Title
- Rediscovering Rikyu and the beginnings of the Japanese tea ceremony / Herbert Plutschow.
- Author
- Plutschow, Herbert E., 1939-2010.
- Publication
- Folkestone, Kent : Global Oriental, [2003]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | GT2911.S4 P58 2003 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 226 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- A comprehensive study of the celebrated Japanese tea master Rikyu (1522-91). Rikyu's tea is considered as an important political as well as a socio-religious ritual in response to the dramatic changes taking place in the country at large: the hundred-year civil war--Sengoku or Warring States period--was finally coming to an end and the process of political unification under the strong military leadership of Oda Nobunaga (1534-82) and Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1537-98) had begun. A key focus on the book is the author's research into why Rikyu's tragic suicide was a necessary outcome of the emerging conflict between ritual, art, and politics. The study also provides insights into a sixteenth-century Japanese sense of beauty commonly called wabi, as well as insight into what links Rikyu's wabi tea with Zen Buddhism and ultimately to ritual and the state.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (209-216) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. Aims of the book ; The sources : fact and fiction ; The taste of tea -- The setting for tea. Tea as ritual ; Tea and China ; Daoism ; Zen Buddhism; Tea as an aesthetic ; Politics and the arts ; Tea architecture and gardening ; Tea utensils ; Merchants' tea ; Rikyu's predecessors -- Rikyu's life and thought. Rikyu's ancestors ; Rikyu's youth ; Rikyu under Oda Nobunaga ; Rikyu under Toyotomi Hideyoshi ; Rikyu's death -- Rikyu's tea. Rikyu's philosophy ; Rikyu's aesthetics ; Rikyu's tea-huts and gardens ; Rikyu's utensils ; Simplified procedures ; Rikyu's food ; Rikyu's flowers -- Rikyu's disciples. Hosokawa Sansai ; Takayama Ukon ; Shibayama Kenmotsu ; Seta Kamon ; Makimura Hyobu ; Gamo Ujisato ; Furuta Oribe -- Rikyu's legacy. Rikyu and Suguwara no Michizane ; Rikyu's deification ; Tea after Rikyu -- Rikyu's displays.
- ISBN
- 1901903354
- 9781901903355
- LCCN
- 2004381491
- OCLC
- ocm47776621
- 47776621
- SCSB-1326957
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library