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The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical role in tea culture (chanoyu). In Cultivating Femininity, Rebecca Corbett writes women back into this history and shows how tea practice for women was understood, articulated, and promoted in the Edo (1603-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) periods. Viewing chanoyu from the lens of feminist and gender theory, she sheds new light on tea's undeniable influence on the formation of modern understandings of femininity in Japan. Cultivating Femininity offers a new perspective on the prevalence of tea practice among women in modern Japan. It presents a fresh, much-needed approach, one that will be appreciated by students and scholars of Japanese history, gender, and culture, as well as by tea practitioners.

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Why is the tea-room entrance, or nijiriguchi, so narrow? How did the practice of "passing the bowl," or mawashinomi, come about? And what hidden meaning lies behind the ritual purification of hands and mouth, or chōzu?Chanoyu, the art of preparing tea, developed against a backdrop of social turmoil in late medieval Japan. Through the singular figure of Sen no Rikyū, it found expression as wabi-cha, or wabi tea, the foundation of Japanese tea culture today. Here, scholar and curator Kumakura Isao investigates the unique cultural value of tea. He examines its rituals and behaviors, elaborates its structure, spaces, and style, and delves into the history of everything from the tea whisk to the tea room itself. Drawing on folklore studies and performing-arts history, Kumakura develops a new perspective on Japan's culture of tea.

Japanese tea ceremony --- Chashitsu (Japanese tearooms) --- Cha-no-yu houses --- Tea houses (Japanese tea ceremony) --- Teahouses (Japanese tea ceremony) --- Garden structures --- History.

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From its origins as a distinct set of ritualised practices in the sixteenth century to its international expansion in the twentieth, tea culture has had a major impact on artistic production, connoisseurship, etiquette, food, design and more recently, on notions of Japaneseness. The authors dispel the myths around the development of tea practice, dispute the fiction of the dominance of aesthetics over politics in tea, and demonstrate that writing history has always been an integral part of tea culture.

Japanese tea ceremony --- Tea --- History --- Cha-no-yu --- Tea ceremony, Japanese --- Drinking customs --- Chashitsu (Japanese tearooms) --- J6876 --- Japan: Artistic games and pastime -- tea ceremony (sadō, chadō, cha no yu) --- Japanese tea ceremony. --- Cérémonie du thé --- Thé --- History. --- Histoire

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The subject of the tea ceremony is well researched both in and outside of Japan, but the women who practice it are hardly ever discussed. The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan rectifies this by discussing the meaning of the Japanese tea ceremony for women practitioners in Japan from World War II to the present day. It examines how lay tea ceremony practitioners have been transforming this cultural activity while being, in turn, transformed by it.

Japanese tea ceremony. --- Women --- Cha-no-yu --- Tea ceremony, Japanese --- Drinking customs --- Chashitsu (Japanese tearooms) --- Social conditions. --- Japan --- Social conditions --- Sociology of culture --- Sociology of minorities --- Community organization --- Participation --- Rituals --- Book --- Culture --- Empowerment