First published in 2006 Routledge is an imprint of Taylor Francis an informa company We're building a Japanese tea house for our theme camp at Burning Man this year I found this book at the Mechanics' Institute a private library in the Financial District I joined earlier this year It's in amazing shape for a book that was published in 1935 Check out the unfaded color on the cover and the checkout history dating back to 1936 and it is a small pamphlet of perhaps 60 pages There is a photo on every page and a bit of text The target audience is presumably a westerner in Japan on business or diplomatic missions or presumably the spouse of such a person It briefly covers the history of tea in Japan and then dives into a fairly comprehensive overview of what to expect if you are a invited to a tea party by a wealthy industrialist in 1930's Japan It is a charming read and for the most part very well edited I was titillated by little details of the place and time for instance when it mentions Japan's 70 years of unbroken peaceGood luck finding a copy but it's a uick interesting read if you have any interest in this sort of thing I found an edition from 1954 at a used book store and the age was part of the appeal This is a pretty charming rule book for hosting and participating in a cha no yu event Not sure it has much modern day application particularly if you're living outside Japan but as a piece of social history it was a great find
- Hardcover
- 178 pages
- Tea Cult Of Japan The Kegan Paul Japanese Tourist Library
- Yasunosuke Fukukita
- English
- 25 August 2014 Yasunosuke Fukukita
- 9780710310217
