Japanese Tea Culture

A fresh and stimulating study of a traditional art which continues to exert influence on cultural practices inside and outside Japan.

Morgan Pitelka is Assistant Professor of Asian Studies at Occidental College, Los Angeles, specializing the cultural history of pre-modern Japan.

List of figures, Notes on contributors, Acknowledgments, Introduction to Japanese tea culture, 1. Commerce, politics, and tea: the career of Imai S-ky- (1520-1593), 2. The transformation of tea practice in sixteenth-century Japan, 3. Shopping for pots in Momoyama Japan, 4. Sen K-shin S-sa (1613-1672): writing tea history, 5. Karamono for sencha: transformations in the taste for Chinese art, 6. Tea of the warrior in the late Tokugawa period, 7. Riky- has left the tea room: national cinema interrogates the anecdotal legend, 8. Tea records: kaiki and oboegaki in contemporary Japanese tea practice, Select bibliography, Index