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Rediscovering Rikyu - And the Beginnings of the Japanese Tea Ceremony

English · Hardback

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The first comprehensive book-length study in over half a century of the celebrated Japanese tea master Rikyu, considered the father of the Tea Ceremony (cha-no-yu) that fully contextualizes tea in politics, aesthetics, ritual and art

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Herbert Plutschow was born in Switzerland and educated in Switzerland, England, Spain, France, Japan and the USA and got his PhD from Columbia University, New York. He is author of some 15 books, including Four Japanese Diaries of the Middle Ages (co-author, Cornell University, 1981) and Nihon Kiko Bungaku Binran (co-author, Tokyo, 1975). He has taught at the University of Illinois, University of Zürich, Switzerland, International Christian University, University of Paris, Sorbonne, Kyoto University and Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo.

Product details

Authors Herbert Plutschow
Publisher Brill
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 15.05.2003
 
EAN 9781901903355
ISBN 978-1-901903-35-5
No. of pages 232
Dimensions 147 mm x 223 mm x 27 mm
Weight 428 g
Series Rediscovering
Subjects Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous

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