Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
01.09.2009
Verlag
Koninklijke Brill BvSeitenzahl
336
Maße (L/B/H)
23.4/15.6/1.8 cm
Gewicht
473 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-1-905246-74-8
This provoking new study of the Japanese tea ceremony (chanoyu) examines the ideological foundation of its place in history and the broader context of Japanese cultural values where it has emerged as a so-called "quintessential" component of the culture. It was in fact, Sen Soshitsu XI, grandmaster of Urasenke, today the most globally prominent tea school, who argued in 1872 that tea should be viewed as the expression of the moral universe of the nation. A practicing student of tea himself, the author argues, however, that tea was many other things: It was privilege, politics, power, and the lever for passion and commitment in the theater of war. Through a methodological framework rooted in current approaches, he demonstrates how the iconic images as supposedly timeless examples of Japanese tradition have been the subject of manipulation as ideological tools and speak to presentations of cultural identity in Japanese society today.
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