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

Corbett, Rebecca, author
Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2019

"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, articulated, and promoted in the Edo (1603-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) periods. Viewing chanoyu from the lens of feminist and gender theory, she sheds new light on tea's undeniable influence on the formation of modern understandings of femininity in Japan." -- Publisher's description

Bibliographic Information


Format: Book
Author: Corbett, Rebecca,
Subject: Women
Japanese tea ceremony
Publication Year:2019
Language:English
Published:Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2019
ISBN:9780824881467
082488146X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Course: HIST220

Availability at HKSYU Library


Location Call number Status
English Book (4/F) 305.40952 COR 2019 Available