Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 0804784795
9780804784795
9780804778664
0804778663
9780804778671
0804778671
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | The tea ceremony persists as one of the most evocative symbols of Japan. Originally a pastime of elite warriors in premodern society, it was later recast as an emblem of the modern Japanese state, only to be transformed again into its current incarnation, largely the hobby of middle-class housewives. How does the cultural practice of a few come to represent a nation as a whole? Although few non-Japanese scholars have peered behind the walls of a tea room, sociologist Kristin Surak came to know the inner workings of the tea world over the course of ten years of tea training. Here.
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| Other form: | Print version: Surak, Kristin, 1976- Making tea, making Japan. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2013 9780804778664
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