Chigusa and the Art of Tea
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This innovative book narrates the history of a single object--a tea-leaf storage jar created in southern China during the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries--and describes how its role changed after it was imported to Japan and passed from owner to owner there. In Japan, where the jar was in constant use for more than seven hundred years, it was transformed from a humble vessel into a celebrated object used in chanoyu (often translated in English...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0934686254
ISBN13:9780934686259
Release Date:February 2014
Publisher:University of Washington Press
Length:287 Pages
Weight:2.50 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 8.2" x 10.9"
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