- Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: TUTTLE PUBLISHING (May 2 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 4805309148
- ISBN-13: 978-4805309148
- Product Dimensions: 20.2 x 13.4 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #492,208 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Good contents, poor editing, Feb 26 2011
By Manuel Del Rio Rodriguez "Galician Bookworm" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Japanese Tea Ceremony (Paperback)
This volume is a new edition of quite an old classic: A.L. Sadler's 'The Japanese Tea Ceremony', published in 1933.The book is a very interesting introduction to the said topic, and is divided into three parts: in the first you get a general introduction to all the main aspects, objects, spaces and elements of the Tea Ceremony; in the second (the biggest by far) you have a rich treasure of anecdotes and stories about famous tea-masters, both well known (Rikyu, Sotan, Oribe, Enshu...) and not so much known. Finally, a very small third part acts as an appendix of sorts, with some brief information about schools, menus, family dinasties, etc...
The book makes good reading (specially the stories in the second part), and the information is always engaging, although it could be a bit more systematic. The first part introduces basic elements of Cha-no-yu, but frequently doesn't explain a lot, and also quite frequently it omits explanations of important issues (for example, the differences between natsume and chaire, both 'tea caddies'). The writing time of the book is very present in annoying details like the way of rendering Japanese traditional names, sometimes very confusing, and an unabashed apologia of a conservative view of politics and aesthetics, as incarnated by Tea (there's a quite explicit eulogy of Mussolini's Italy in the Sadler's introduction. Even clever academics are prone to some foolishness and extreme short-sightedness from time to time...).
As to the edition, it has one good thing and one terrible thing: the good is the inclusion of a set of pages at the start with colour photographs of tea implements, and specially of different types of tea bowls (Bizen, Hagi, Raku, Oribe...). This is a delightful addition. Unfortunately, it (and the whole book) are seriously handicapped by the carelessness of the edition in the corrections: the book is constantly hampered with mistakes and missing words; they are extremely frequent (at least every three pages there's one or more), and although the meaning always gets through, it gives a very poor impression of the editing work.
Overall, the book is interesting to have and read, although there are better volumes available for a more profound introduction to Cha-no-yu.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Japanese tea ceremony, Jan 7 2010
By maggie mcconnell "real nurse" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Japanese Tea Ceremony (Paperback)
The information in the book was fantastic, however the book needed more photographs of actual tea ceremonies, items used in those ceremonies and perhaps pictures of Japanese tea houses. It would have been more interesting and readable..
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