This innovative book narrates the history of a single object--a
tea-leaf storage jar created in southern China during the
thirteenth or fourteenth centuries--and describes how its role
changed after it was imported to Japan and passed from owner to
owner there. In Japan, where the jar was in constant use for more
than seven hundred years, it was transformed from a humble vessel
into a celebrated object used in chanoyu (often translated in
English as tea ceremony), renowned for its aesthetic and functional
qualities, and awarded the name Chigusa.
Few extant tea utensils possess the quantity and quality of the
accessories associated with Chigusa, material that enables modern
scholars and tea aficionados to trace the jar U s evolving history
of ownership and appreciation. Tea diaries indicate that the lavish
accessories--the silk net bag, cover, and cords--that still
accompany the jar were prepared in the early sixteenth century by
its first recorded owner.
Louise Allison Cort is curator of ceramics, Freer Gallery of Art
and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. She
received the 2012 Secretary U s Distinguished Research Lecture
Award, Smithsonian Institution, and the 2012 Koyama Fujio Memorial
Prize for her research on historical Japanese ceramics. Andrew M.
Watsky is professor of Japanese art at Princeton University. His
book, "Chikubushima: Deploying the Sacred Arts in Momoyama Japan,"
received the John Whitney Hall Book Prize (Association for Asian
Studies) and the Shimada Prize (Freer and Sackler Galleries,
Smithsonian Institution)."
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