Promulgation of the Contemporary Tea Ceremony 1694
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This illustrated manual for the contemporary tea ceremony, *Promulgation of the Contemporary Tea Ceremony*, was created by Endō Genkan in 1694. The book includes both text and illustrations, depicting the tools and techniques used in the Japanese tea ceremony, along with architectural plans for a tea room. The drawings, in a simple black and white style, are detailed and informative, providing a valuable resource for understanding the rituals and aesthetics of the tea ceremony in the Edo period.
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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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