Promulgation of the Contemporary Tea Ceremony 1694
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minneapolisinstituteofart
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"Promulgation of the Contemporary Tea Ceremony" (1694) by Endō Genkan is a woodblock printed book containing instructions and diagrams for Japanese tea ceremony practices. This illustrated guide, housed in the Minneapolis Institute of Art, is a vital document for understanding the history and traditions of this important cultural practice. The detailed illustrations and diagrams depict various elements of the tea ceremony, including the layout of the tea room, the placement of utensils, and the proper procedures for preparing and serving tea. Genkan's work represents the evolving nature of the Japanese tea ceremony during the Edo period and provides insight into the aesthetic principles that guided this refined art form.
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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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