Cultivating femininity : women and tea culture in Edo and Meiji Japan /

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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,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Corbett, Rebecca (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2018]
Subjects:
1700-1899
Japanese tea ceremony > History > 18th century.
Japanese tea ceremony > History > 19th century.
Women > Japan > Social conditions.
Women > Japan > Economic conditions.
Femmes > Japon > Conditions sociales.
Femmes > Japon > Conditions économiques.
HISTORY > Asia > Japan.
Japanese tea ceremony.
Women > Economic conditions.
Women > Social conditions.
Japan.
History
Chanoyu
Japanese tea culture
Modernity
Practice
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
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.

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