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Woodblock printed book; ink and color on paperexpand_more
Mary Griggs Burke Collection, Gift of the Mary and Jackson Burke Foundationexpand_more 2015.79.215.2
Contemporary guide to tea ceremony, Enshū school.
In the mid-1600s, an aristocrat named Kobori EnshÅ« (1579â1647), 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). EnshÅ«âs 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, EndÅ Genkan, an adherent of the EnshÅ« School of tea, wrote a number of important books on the Japanese tea ceremony including the volumes displayed here, which sought to disseminate EnshÅ«âs kirei-sabi tea aesthetic.