Promulgation of the Contemporary Tea Ceremony 1694
endogenkan
minneapolisinstituteofart
ink, color-on-paper
aged paper
toned paper
book
sketch book
japan
personal sketchbook
ink
color-on-paper
pen-ink sketch
pen and pencil
pen work
sketchbook drawing
storyboard and sketchbook work
sketchbook art
"Promulgation of the Contemporary Tea Ceremony," created by Endō Genkan in 1694, is a detailed illustrated guide to the Japanese tea ceremony. This work, now located in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, provides viewers with intricate drawings of the tea ceremony's steps and proper etiquette. The text on the pages, written in Japanese, further enhances understanding of the ritual's complexities. The artwork's small size and elegant format highlight the intimate and carefully considered nature of the traditional Japanese tea ceremony.
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Contemporary guide to tea ceremony, Enshū school. In the mid-1600s, an aristocrat named Kobori Enshū (1579–1647), who was also a skilled poet, artist, flower arranger, and tea master, developed his own style of the tea ceremony based on the aesthetic ideal of kirei-sabi, which combined the notions of refined beauty (kirei) and patina, the wear associated with age (sabi). Enshū’s kirei-sabi style, which partially supplanted wabi (imperfect or rustic) as the dominant aesthetic, had a great impact on the design of gardens and teahouses, decoration of teahouse interiors, and the production of tea wares in the mid-1600s. Two generations later, Endō Genkan, an adherent of the Enshū School of tea, wrote a number of important books on the Japanese tea ceremony including the volumes displayed here, which sought to disseminate Enshū’s kirei-sabi tea aesthetic.
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