Chigusa and the Art of Tea

Louise Allison Cort, Andrew M. Watsky

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Freer Gallery of Art,U.S.
01 May 2014

Oriental art; Ceramics: artworks

This innovative book narrates the history of a single object-a tea-leaf storage jar created in southern China during the thirteenth or fourteenth centuries-and describes how its role changed after it was imported to Japan and passed from owner to owner there. In Japan, where the jar was in constant use for more than seven hundred years, it was transformed from a humble vessel into a celebrated object used in chanoyu (often translated in English as tea ceremony), renowned for its aesthetic and functional qualities, and awarded the name Chigusa.

Few extant tea utensils possess the quantity and quality of the accessories associated with Chigusa, material that enables modern scholars and tea aficionados to trace the jar's evolving history of ownership and appreciation. Tea diaries indicate that the lavish accessories-the silk net bag, cover, and cords-that still accompany the jar were prepared in the early sixteenth century by its first recorded owner.

By: Louise Allison Cort, Andrew M. Watsky
Imprint: Freer Gallery of Art,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 229mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 1.111kg
ISBN: 9780934686259
ISBN 10: 0934686254
Pages: 287
Publication Date: 01 May 2014
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Louise Allison Cort is curator of ceramics, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. She received the 2012 Secretary's Distinguished Research Lecture Award, Smithsonian Institution, and the 2012 Koyama Fujio Memorial Prize for her research on historical Japanese ceramics. Andrew M. Watsky is professor of Japanese art at Princeton University. His book, Chikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan, received the John Whitney Hall Book Prize (Association for Asian Studies) and the Shimada Prize (Freer and Sackler Galleries, Smithsonian Institution).

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Louise Allison Cort, Andrew M. Watsky

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