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  • TEA DRINKING CUSTOMS OF THE WORLD
    • The history of tea drinking
      • The home of tea
      • The history of tea in China
      • The great age of ocean navigation.
      • Tea in modern society.
    • About tea
      • Tea in China
      • Tea in Europe
      • Tea in central Asia
    • The production and effect of tea
      • The tea plant
      • Tea production
      • The effect of tea
  • THE TRADITION OF CHANOYU
    • History of chanoyu
      • Introduction of tea into Japan
      • Tea as medicine
      • The popularization of tea drinking
      • The establishment of wabi-style tea
      • Tea under the shoguns
      • The formation of schools of chanoyu
      • Chanoyu becomes a light accomplishment
      • Chanoyu in the Meiji Period
      • The chanoyu of sukisha
      • Chanoyu in the modern age
    • Portraits of tea devotees
      • Murata Shuko
      • Takeno Joo
      • Furuta Oribe and Kobori Enshu
      • Matsudaira Fumai and Ii Naosuke
    • Chanoyu and Japanese culture
      • Wabi and Sabi
      • Chanoyu and chasuki
      • Chanoyu and the classical arts
      • Chanoyu and religion
      • Chanoyu and folk customs
  • RIKYU'S CHANOYU AND ITS LINEAGE
    • The life of Rikyu
      • Rikyu in his youth
      • Rikyu and Nobunaga, Hideyoshi
      • The golden age of the way of tea (sado)
      • Rikyu's later years
    • Rikyu's chanoyu
      • Rikyu's tea utensils - from selection to creation
      • Rikyu's words - the concept of 'wabi'
      • Rikyu's tea gatherings - the expression of beauty and spirit
    • Rikyu's tradition - the history of Omotesenke
      • Rikyu's successors and the revival of the Sen family
      • Employment by the Tokugawa family of Kii Province
      • The separation of the three Sen families
      • The renaissance of chanoyu
      • Chanoyu of modern times and today - the decline and revival of sado
  • THE TEA ROOM AND THE TEA GARDEN
    • Traditional houses and the tea room
      • Living with nature
      • Buildings and gardens
      • The origin of the tatami room
      • Kyoma tatami
      • Displaying objects in the zashiki
      • En (Verandah) -connecting house and garden
      • The tea room
      • The perfection of the soan tea room
      • The special characteristics of a soan-style tea room
      • The tea room and the tea garden
      • Hiroma (Large tea rooms) and koma (Small tea rooms)
    • Techniques and materials
      • Giving form to chanoyu
      • Marutazukuri (Using logs in the tea room)
      • Making the most of bamboo
      • Clay walls
      • A solid structure
    • Omotesenke's tea rooms and gardens
      • The Juraku residence
      • The restoration of the Sen family residence
      • Sotan's one-and-a-half mat Fushin'an tea room
      • Koshin's Fushin'an
      • Omotesenke before the Great Fire of 1788
      • After the Great Fire of Tenmei -The structure of the tea garden up to the present day
      • From the Nakakuguri gateway to the Zangetsutei tea room
      • Fushin'an and the inner tea garden
      • The Shichijo tea room
      • Sodo (Founder's Hall)
      • The Hogobari tea room
      • The new practice room (Keikoba)
      • The appearance of the Omotesenke
  • FORMS AND BEHAVIOR
    • Etiquette and practice
      • Gentle behavior
      • Drinking tea
      • About practice
    • Holding a tea gathering
      • Preparation for a tea gathering
      • About tea gatherings
      • Chanoyu's almanac
    • The progress of a tea event
      • About tea events
      • The day of the tea event - in the yoritsuki (anteroom)
      • The first half of the tea event - greeting the guests, the first charcoal procedure, kaiseki cuisine, sweets
      • The second half of the tea event - the middle break, thick tea, the second charcoal procedure, thin tea, leaving the tea room
      • Flowers for the tea room
      • Tea cuisine
      • Tea sweets
  • TEA UTENSILS
    • The merits of utensils
      • Works of art and tea utensils (appreciation and use)
      • Co-ordinating utensils in the tea room
      • Colour, form and name
      • Tea gathering records
      • Utensil box inscriptions
      • Utensils handed down
    • The world of utensils
      • Chinese, Korean and Japanese utensils
      • Famous utensils (meibutsu)
      • Shin-gyo-so (formal semi-formal, informal) ranking of utensils
    • 'Mitate' (utensils originally used for another purpose) and 'Konomimono' (utensils designed by the Iemoto)
      • 'Mitate'
      • 'Konomimono'
      • Senke's ten designated craftsmen families
 
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