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Item Size

Length 29cm/11.4in

Width 20cm/7.9in

Height 3.5cm/1.4in

Paperback with plastic cover
Page: 414 pages
Language: Mainly Japanese.The work titles and index are notated in both English and Japanese."

The Special Exhibition "Chanoyu: The Arts of Tea Ceremony, The Essence of Japan" was held at the Tokyo National Museum's Heiseikan from April 11 to June 4, 2017. The exhibition presented a sweeping survey of the art of chanoyu (the Japanese tea ceremony) from the Muromachi period to the modern era, organized into five chapters: the tea culture of the Ashikaga shoguns and their reverence for Chinese-imported wares (karamono); the emergence of wabi-cha; the perfection of wabi-cha under Sen no Rikyū; the classical revival led by Kobori Enshū and Matsudaira Fumai; and the modern aesthetic vision of early 20th-century tea connoisseurs. It marked the first large-scale exhibition devoted to the art of chanoyu at the museum in 37 years, since the 1980 exhibition "The Art of Tea." Featuring masterpieces such as the National Treasure Yōhen Tenmoku tea bowl, the exhibition traced the lineage of a uniquely Japanese aesthetic cultivated through the act of tea drinking across the centuries. This catalogue comprises 414 pages in A4 format, including plates and commentary on the exhibited works as well as a 16-page English-language section.