Chanoyu Quarterly Reading List
Very interested
- Purity and Purification in the Nampo Roku
- Has a description of Momite and why it’s done
- Sen Rikyu’s Tea Utensils
- Has a list of some of Rikyu’s preferred dougu. Would be really cool to go through.
- The I-ching and Chanoyu
- I would love to learn more about Gyo no Gyo
- The Microcosmic Space Created by Sen Rikyu
- I hear this word on occasion. This would be neat.
- Theorizing about the Origins of the Tokonoma
- This just sounds awesome
Interested
- Chadogu — Tea Utensils - Chaire (and the whole chadogu suite)
- Okashi for Spring (and others)
- Kekkai - The Aesthetics of Partitions
- Meibutsu-gire - Famous Chanoyu Fabrics
- Uta-mei - The Poetic Names of Tea Utensils
- Utsushi - The Aesthetic of Imitation
- Zenkiga - Expressing the Spirit of Zen
- A Biography of Sen Rikyu - Chronological Chart of Major Historical and Tea Events Centering Around the Life of Sen Rikyu
- A Brief History of Kimono
- A History of Tatami
- A Short History of Japanese Ceramics
- Anecdotes about Sen Rikyu
- Bizen-ware Ceramics
- Chanoyu and the Imperial Court
- Chanoyu in the Early Edo Period
- [[D)](Christianity and Chanoyu (D|Christianity and Chanoyu (D)]])
- Color Plates — Rikyu’s tearoom - the Taian at Myokian
- Confluence of East and West - Okakura Kakuzo and Tea
- Early History of the Teahouse—Part I (and others)
- Early Kyoto Ceramics
- Famous Sources of Water In and Around Kyoto
- [[Daisosho)](Four and One-half Mats (Daisosho|Four and One-half Mats (Daisosho)]])
- Four Elements of Tea
- From 会席「かいせき」to 懐石「かいせき」- The Development of Formal Tea Cuisine
- Furuta Oribe
- Gengensai-period Ash Form Models
- Historical Review of Chanoyu, part I (and others)
- Humility in a Tea-cup - Isabella Stewart Gardner and Okakura Kakuzo
- Iga Tea Ware
- Introduction to Lacquer
- [[D)](Just Sit and Have Tea (D|Just Sit and Have Tea (D)]])
- Like the Flowers in the Field - Rikyu’s Flowers for Tea
- Matsudaira Fumai - The Creation of a New World of Chanoyu
- Matsudaira Fumai’s Ido Teabowls
- Men of Power and Their Tea Masters
- Men of Tea - An Evaluation of Yamanoue Soji, Part I (and others)
- Museums and Tea Utensils
- Old Kutani Ware - A Product of the Imari Kilns
- One-Word Gates - Ro, Kan, Jaku, Kan
- Patriarch Zen and the Koan - An Introduction to Zen Training
- Philosophical Aspects of the Chashitsu
- Presentation of Okashi
- Rikyu and the Birth of the Nijiriguchi
- Rikyu Gray - An Open-ended Aesthetic
- Science of Tea (and others)
- Scientific Taste - The U.S. Government Tea Examiner
- Sen Rikyu and Taian
- Sen Sotan
- Sen Sotan and Yuin
- Shinto Spirit in Haiku
- Swords of the Tea Masters
- Tang Dynasty Tea Utensils and Tea Culture - Recent Discoveries at Famen Temple
- Tea and Kyoto Ceramics in the Late Edo Period
- Tea and Liquor
- Tea and Politics in Late-Sixteenth-Century Japan
- Tea Sweets - A Historical Study
- Teabowls - Part I (and others)
- The Kizaemon Ido Tea-bowl
- The Natsume Tea Caddy
- The Alcove
- The Beauty of Earthen Walls
- The Beauty of Lacquerware
- The Business of Tea-making in Uji
- The Esthetics of Chanoyu, Part 1 (and others)
- The Evolution of Tea Brand Names
- The Grand Kitano Tea Gathering
- The History and Variety of Hagi Ceramics
- The History and Variety of Karatsu Ceramics
- The History of Chanoyu in Early-Modern Japan
- [[D)](The Implications of the Fukusa (D|The Implications of the Fukusa (D)]])
- The Kizaemon Teabowl Reconsidered - The Making of a Masterpiece
- The Korean Teabowl
- The Practice of Tea 3, Memoranda of the Words of Rikyu, Namporoku Book 1 (potentially and others)
- The Role of Anecdotes in the Transmission of Tea Traditions
- The Roof-Tile Maker
- The Sen Family Tradition of Chado
- The Significance of the Nampo Roku
- The Soul of Chashaku
- Kao - Monogram Signatures in the World of Tea
- The Styles and Roles of Kao in Tea
- The Taste of Tea - Excerpts from the Chami
- The Temmoku Teabowl
- [[D)](The Three Sen Families (D|The Three Sen Families (D)]])
- The Way of Tea and Buddhism
- The Zen Tea Bowl
- [[Daisosho)](Tradition and Adaptation (Daisosho|Tradition and Adaptation (Daisosho)]])
- Uji Tea and its History
- Urasenke Ash Forms
- Wood and Bamboo
- Zen and the Art of Tea
- Zen and Japanese Gardens
- Zen Monks and the Formation of the Way of Tea
- Zen Priests and Their Concepts of Tea