The ideologies of Japanese tea : subjectivity, transience and national identity /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Cross, Tim.
Imprint:	Folkestone, UK : Global Oriental, 2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xviii, 317 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Japanese tea ceremony. Japanese tea ceremony -- Social aspects. Japanese -- Ethnic identity. Japanese -- Ethnic identity. Japanese tea ceremony. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11278111

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ISBN:	9789004212985 9004212981 9781905246748 1905246749 9781905246755
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 296-312) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	This study of the Japanese tea ceremony examines the ideological foundation of its place in history and the broader context of Japanese cultural values where it has emerged as a so-called 'quintessential' component of the culture.
Other form:	Print version: Cross, Tim. Ideologies of Japanese tea. Folkestone, UK : Global Oriental, 2009 9781905246748
Standard no.:	10.1163/ej.9781905246748.i-318

Table of Contents:

What is twenty-first century tea?
Inventing the nation : Japanese culture politicizes nature
Lethal transience
Japanese harmony as nationalism : grand master tea for war and peace
Wartime tea literature : Rikyū, Hideyoshi, and Zen
Grand Master : Iemoto
Tea teachings as power : questioning legitimate authority
Teshigahara's Rikyū as historidal critique : representations, identities and relations
Lethal transience as nationalist fable : Kumai Kei's Sen no Rikyū : Honkakubō Ibun
National identity and tea subjectivities.

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