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
Font size
Picture selection
Rikyu's Juraku residence
Remains of Jurakudai 1
Remains of Jurakudai 2
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