Rediscovering Rikyu - And the Beginnings of the Japanese Tea Ceremony

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

About the author

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