Around Chigusa : tea and the arts of sixteenth-century Japan / edited by Dora C.Y. Ching, Louise Allison Cort, Andrew M. Watsky.
Publisher:
P.Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian ArtDepartment of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University, in association with Princeton University Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
283 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 28 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-257) and index.
Contents:
Tea objects in China and Japan : Chigusa and Kujie jun / Steven D. Owyoung -- The changing value of "things" : from Gusoku to Dōgu / Oka Yoshiko -- Chinese ceramics and warrior sociability in sixteenth-century Japan / Morgan Pitelka -- Changing hands : Teika, poetry, and calligraphy in sixteenth-century Japan / Tomoko Sakomura -- Sixteenth-century performance, onstage and off / Tom Hare -- Eitoku's doves / Matthew McKelway -- Reformatting the context of a Rikyū letter / Andrew Hare -- Chigusa's mouth cover and the Maeda clan / Melissa M. Rinne -- Purple displaces crimson : the Wakan dialectic as polemic / Melissa McCormick -- The art of tea and the aesthetic ideals of the Ming literati / Steven D. Owyoung.
Summary:
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.
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