Publication Date:
2022-05-02
Description:
The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical role in tea culture (〈i〉chanoyu〈/i〉). In 〈i〉Cultivating Femininity,〈/i〉 Rebecca Corbett writes women back into this history and shows how tea practice for women was understood, articulated, and promoted in the Edo (1603–1868) and Meiji (1868–1912) periods. Viewing 〈i〉chanoyu〈/i〉 from the lens of feminist and gender theory, she sheds new light on tea’s undeniable influence on the formation of modern understandings of femininity in Japan. 〈i〉Cultivating Femininity 〈/i〉offers a new perspective on the prevalence of tea practice among women in modern Japan. It presents a fresh, much-needed approach, one that will be appreciated by students and scholars of Japanese history, gender, and culture, as well as by tea practitioners.
Keywords:
History
;
History
;
chanoyu
;
Japanese tea culture
;
modernity
;
practice
;
Daimyo
;
Edo
;
Edo period
;
Ii Naosuke
;
Meiji (era)
;
Shoo
Language:
English
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