ISBN:
0804778671
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9780804778664
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9780804778671
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9780804784795
Language:
English
Pages:
xv, 252 p.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Making Tea, Making Japan : Cultural Nationalism in Practice
DDC:
394.1/5
Keywords:
Japanese tea ceremony
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Nationalism -- Japan
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National characteristics, Japanese
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Japanese tea ceremony
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National characteristics, Japanese
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Nationalism ; Japan
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
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 th
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; Illustrations; Preface; A Note on Transliteration; Introduction: Nation-Work; Chapter 1: Preparing Tea: Spaces, Objects, Performances; The urban infrastructure of Roppongi, Tokyo; Floor plan of Mushin'an; A guest at a tea gathering entering the garden; The crawl-through entrance of a tea room; A tea practitioner kneeling to view a scroll; A hiroma-style tea room; Tea bowls displayed alongside a tea scoop; Visitors at a large tea gathering examine the utensils; A practitioner prepares tea at a formal gathering; A practitioner prepares tea using a portable brazier
Description / Table of Contents:
A practitioner prepares tea using a kettle placed ina sunken hearthChapter 2: Creating Tea: The National Transformation of a Cultural Practice; Toyohara Chikanobu, "Edo Brocades: Tea Ceremony"; Chapter 3: Selling Tea: An Anatomy of the Iemoto System; Signed utensil box lids on display; Tankōkai members attending a tea seminar; The Omotesenke business headquarters; The Omotesenke family compound; Urasenke certificate system (1999); Chapter 4: Enacting Tea: Doing and Demonstrating Japaneseness; Students kneel attentively at a name-giving ceremony; Practitioners discuss the box lids on display
Description / Table of Contents:
Invitees to a large tea gathering enjoy a kaiseke mealPractitioners wait to enter the tea room; An iemoto performing a ritual tea service; Tea practitioners watching an iemoto; Membership in the Omotesenke Dōmonkai.; Number of tea ceremony practitioners in Japan in 2006; Junior high school students watch a tea ceremony; Chapter 5: Beyond the Tea Room: Toward a Praxeology of Cultural Nationalism; Shoppers attend a tea ceremony demonstration; A Kyoto café advertises a matcha tea tasting; Tourists in Kyoto try their hand at whisking tea; A Tokyo subway poster featuring the tea ceremony
Description / Table of Contents:
Popular magazine covers featuring the teGlossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Description / Table of Contents:
spaces, objects, performances -- Creating tea : the national transformation of a cultural practice -- Selling tea : an anatomy of the iemoto system -- Enacting tea : doing and demonstrating Japaneseness -- Beyond the tea room : toward a praxeology of nationness and nationalism
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