Around Chigusa: Tea and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan

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An in-depth look at the dynamic cultural world of tea in Japan during its formative period Around Chigusa investigates the cultural and artistic milieu in which a humble jar of Chinese origin dating to the thirteenth or fourteenth century became Chigusa, a revered, named object in the practice of formalized tea presentation (chanoyu) in sixteenth-

Dora C. Y. Ching is associate director of the P. Y. and Kinmay W. Tang Center for East Asian Art at Princeton University. She is the coeditor of numerous books, including The Family Model in Chinese Art and Culture(Princeton). Louise Allison Cort is curator for ceramics at the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery. Her books include Isamu Noguchi and Modern Japanese Ceramics. Andrew M. Watsky is professor of Japanese art and archaeology at Princeton University. He is the author of Chikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan. He and Cort are the coeditors of Chigusa and the Art of Tea.

"The inclusion of ninety-nine color illustrations of extremely high quality makes this book visually appealing. . . . They significantly enhance the reader's appreciation of the analysis of the letter and textile in question."---Rebecca Corbett, CAA Reviews