Cha-No-Yu : The Japanese Tea Ceremony

Tokyo:: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1977. 4.5" wide by 7.25" tall. A bright, shiny, clean, square, tight, unmarked copy. Sharp corners. No store stamp, owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh and crisp, obviously never read. No underlining. No highlighting. No margin notes. Flat spine. No creases. Illustrated with many line drawings, 23 photographic plates, and a fold-out chart (Genealogy of the Tea Masters from No-ami [1450] to the Present Day). In English. Printed in Japan. Bibliography. Footnotes. Index. Bound in the original pictorial wrappers. Reprint of a book originally published in 1933, and reissued in 1962. From the rear inside wrapper: "This disciplined estheticism, as expressed in architecture, garden design, flower arrangement, pottery, painting, and other arts intimately related with the cha-no-yu, forms the focus of attention in the first part of the book. The second part, entitled 'Tea Masters,' presents a series of stories illustrating the tea experiences of representative men of all types during the Muromachi, Momoyama, and Tokugawa periods. The book is abundantly illustrated with drawings of tea-ceremony furniture and utensils, tearoom architecture and garden design, floor and ground plans, and numerous other features of the cha-no-yu. A number of photographic plates pictures famous tea bowls, teahouses, and gardens.". Later printing. Soft Cover. As New condition. (xxviii), 265pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.