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Summary:

The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical role in tea culture (chanoyu). In Cultivating Femininity, 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 chanoyu 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. Cultivating Femininity 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.

Table of Contents:

• Women and tea culture in early modern Japan
• A handbook for elite women's tea in the eighteenth century
• A handbook for women's tea in the nineteenth century
• Guides for cultivating femininity
• Guides for modern life
• Epilogue : beyond the Meiji period.

Author/Creator:

Corbett, Rebecca , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Cultivating femininity: women and tea culture in Edo and Meiji Japan [by Corbett, R.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Cultivating femininity [by Corbett, R.] (ISBN 9780824872076; LCCN 2017025008; OCLC Number 990057246)

Subjects:

Japanese tea ceremony — History — 18th century

Japanese tea ceremony — History — 19th century

Women — Japan — Social conditions

Women — Japan — Economic conditions

Japanese tea ceremony

Women — Economic conditions

Women — Social conditions

Japan

1700-1899

Women

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 189 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GT2910 .C67 2018eb

ISBNs:

9780824878405 (electronic bk.)
082487840X (electronic bk.)
9780824872076 (electronic bk.)
082487207X (electronic bk.)
9780824878399 (electronic bk.)
0824878396 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

1038392407