CAUTION: The projects in this book require boiling water and brewing hot tea, which can cause serious physical injury if handled improperly Children should be supervised carefully and provided with any assistance they need to insure their safety around hot water.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sato, Shozo.
Tea ceremony / Shozo Sato; assisted by Alice Ogura Sato;
[illustrations by Masturah Jeffrey].—1st edition.
p. cm. (Asian arts and crafts for creative kids)
ISBN: 978-1-4629-0837-0 (ebook) 1. Japanese tea ceremony.
I. Sato, Alice Ogura. II. Jeffrey,
Masturah, ill. III. Title.
GT2910.S3673 2004
394.I'5—dc22 2004010253
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contents
| acknowledgments | 4 | |
| preface | 5 | |
| introduction | 7 | |
| types of tea | 10 | |
| tea utensils | 14 | |
| project 1: | setting up the tearoom | 21 |
| project 2: | starting the tea ceremony | 29 |
| project 3: | preparing the tea bowl and whisk | 37 |
| project 4: | making the tea | 46 |
| project 5: | completing the tea ceremony | 51 |
| final words | 60 | |
| glossary | 61 | |
| tea equipment resources | 64 |
Acknowledgments
Over the four-hundred-year history of the tea ceremony, hundreds of valuable books have been published. I consider myself merely an interpreter of this great practice of cha no yu and introducer to the Western world, especially to young people. In creating this book, I owe much to the following people: my teacher Kishimoto Kosen, who has been my mentor for over a half century; from Dai Nippon Chado Gakkai Headquarters in Tokyo, both Ehara Shou, for her scholarly guidance, and its president, Tanaka Seno, author of Tea Ceremony, a well-known book originally published by Kodahsha; Tanaka Misho of Chado Gakkai School, who is teaching the tea ceremony at the Kikuzawa Higashi Elementary School of Shika numa City, Tochigi prefecture; Anzai Chizuko of the Urasenke School, who teaches at Sanbonmatsu Elementary School of Hachioji in Tokyo; Professor Kimiko Gunji of the Japan House, University of Illinois, for photography; and the children. Photographs were taken by Shozo Sato at Zakyu, a center for Japanese arts in northern California.
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