喫茶去: Kissako ~ Explorations of Japan's Tea Culture

Source: http://hitoritabi-kiseki.com/blog-entry-87.html                                             I'm back to the blogosphere a...

I'm back from a long hiatus dedicated to writing and teaching, and it's time to update the blog with some interesting material I'...

In the process recently of writing a section of my dissertation which concerns meibutsu (famed and named) tea utensils, I came across this ...

Gentle Readers, (Does anyone besides me remember how the inimitable Miss Manners addressed her readership in this manner?) My recent dea...

The Toyo-bo ( 東陽坊)  teahouse is located at Kenninji ( 建仁寺) , a Rinzai Zen temple in Kyoto founded by the monk Eisai in the year 1202. Eisa...

One of the more dramatic episodes in chanoyu lore concerns the case of sengoku-era daimyo Matsunaga Hisahide ( 松永 久秀 1510?-1577). Hisahid...

     Cognizant of the cultural capital that accrued from such endeavors, many of Japan's warrior-rulers engaged in artistic activ...