Ronald Phillip Tanaka's "Scenes from a Country Tea Room" is an
exploration of the Japanese tea ceremony as seen through the eyes
of a Japanese-American high school student, Laura Toyoda. Her poems
and drawings of various types of pottery often associated with the
tea ceremony are an attempt to represent the basic principles of
tea, e.g., sabi, wabi (which have no real English equivalents) and
wa (harmony). However, in a manner typical of tea, they do so
indirectly by allusion, parable and inference.
In viewing the tea ceremony through Toyoda's eyes, Tanaka is
examining the interface between traditional Japanese culture and
some of the core assumptions of our modern global community. It
addresses the question of whether or not the principles of the
traditional arts have anything of value to teach us other than
California zen, the Ninja Turtles and octopus sushi.
Finally, "Scenes from a Country Tea Room" pays homage to the
thousands of Japanese and Japanese-American teachers or sensei who,
like Matsui Sensei of the poems, have taught and continue to teach
traditional Japanese arts in the Japanese-American community since
the first Japanese immigrants arrived in the United States over a
hundred years ago.
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