Promulgation of the Contemporary Tea Ceremony, vol. 6, 1694
Endō Genkanexpand_more
Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paperexpand_more
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundationexpand_more 2015.79.215.5
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Contemporary guide to tea ceremony, Enshū school.
In the mid-1600s, an aristocrat named Kobori Enshū (1579–1647), who was also a skilled poet, artist, flower arranger, and tea master, developed his own style of the tea ceremony based on the aesthetic ideal of kirei-sabi, which combined the notions of refined beauty (kirei) and patina, the wear associated with age (sabi). Enshū’s kirei-sabi style, which partially supplanted wabi (imperfect or rustic) as the dominant aesthetic, had a great impact on the design of gardens and teahouses, decoration of teahouse interiors, and the production of tea wares in the mid-1600s. Two generations later, Endō Genkan, an adherent of the Enshū School of tea, wrote a number of important books on the Japanese tea ceremony including the volumes displayed here, which sought to disseminate Enshū’s kirei-sabi tea aesthetic.
Details
- Title
- Promulgation of the Contemporary Tea Ceremony, vol. 6
- Artist Life
- active c. 1656-1702
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2015.79.215.5
- Catalogue Raisonne
- Murase, Art through a Lifetime, no. 479
- Curator Approved
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