Around Chigusa : tea and the arts of sixteenth-century Japan / edited by Dora C.Y. Ching, Louise Allison Cort, Andrew M. Watsky.

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Book
Language
English
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  • Princeton, New Jersey : P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, in association with Princeton University Press, 2017.
  • ©2017
Description
283 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 28 cm

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    Around Chigusa investigates the cultural and artistic milieu in which a humble jar of Chinese origin dating to the thirteenth or fourteenth century became Chigusa, a revered, named object in the practice of formalized tea presentation (chanoyu) in sixteenth-century Japan. This tea-leaf storage jar lies at the nexus of interlocking personal networks, cultural values, and aesthetic idioms in the practice and appreciation of tea, poetry, painting, calligraphy, and Noh theater during this formative period of tea culture. The book's essays set tea in dialogue with other cultural practices, revealing larger cultural paradigms that informed the production, circulation, and reception of the artifacts used and displayed in tea. Key themes include the centrality of tea to the social life of and interaction among warriors, merchants, and the courtly elite; the multifaceted relationship between things wa (Japanese) and kan (Chinese) and between tea and poetry; the rise of new formats for display of the visual and calligraphic arts; and collecting and display as an expression of political power.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-257) and index.
    ISBN
    • 9780691177557
    • 0691177554
    OCLC
    974676042
    Other standard number
    • 40027524018
    RCP
    C - S
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