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Japanese Tea Ceremony Origins

The Japanese tea ceremony has its origins in the 15th century when tea was first imported to Japan from China during the Tang Dynasty. Over subsequent centuries, Japanese monks and scholars who traveled to China helped develop tea culture by introducing new tea preparation methods. The tea ceremony fully emerged in the 16th century under the philosopher Sen no Rikyu, combining principles of Zen Buddhism and aesthetics. It focuses on simple, modest serving of matcha powdered green tea following traditional procedures and using specialized utensils.

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Japanese Tea Ceremony Origins

The Japanese tea ceremony has its origins in the 15th century when tea was first imported to Japan from China during the Tang Dynasty. Over subsequent centuries, Japanese monks and scholars who traveled to China helped develop tea culture by introducing new tea preparation methods. The tea ceremony fully emerged in the 16th century under the philosopher Sen no Rikyu, combining principles of Zen Buddhism and aesthetics. It focuses on simple, modest serving of matcha powdered green tea following traditional procedures and using specialized utensils.

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What is Japanese way of Tea?

-chado/sado/chanoyu
A.Timeline
-EstablishmentThe Japanese Tea ceremony(end of 15th Century)
-Import of tea-China( Tang Dynasty, 8th Century)
entered the realm of poetry polite amusement
-Development and Evolution(8th – 15th Century)
-Creation-(Japan, 16th Century)
The philospy of Tea- Aestheticism+Ethics+religion
in connection with the whole point of man and nature
-https://www.travelchinaguide.com/images/map/history.jpg
B.Types of green tea
Sencha/ Fukamushi Sencha/ Gyokuro/ Kabusecha/ Matcha/
Tencha/Genmaicha/ Hojicha/ Shincha/ Ichibancha Nibancha Sanbancha
C.Types of Tea
Cake-tea (boiled) Tang
Powdered-tea (whipped) Song
Leaf-tea (steaped) Ming

Philosophy -Zennism/Taoism
Zen
-Japanese Tea ceremony- cus development of zen ritual
-(1191)-Song tea reached Japan cus Zen master Eisai
went to China to study the southern Zen school
Tao
-(def.) literally: path semantically: way/the absolute/the law/nature/
supreme reason/the mode
-Lao-zi: founder of Taoism

Architecture- Chashitsu tetsu(contemporary teahouse) by Fujimori in yamanashi


Arts- Oribe ware16Furuta-Oribe(tea master,teaware make student of sen no rikyu

1185-1333 794-1185 710-794 3 rd


kamakura heian Nara
Japanization Saicho+Kukai:brick tea
Eisai: Eichuemperor
powder tea

Japan
China

S.&N Song 5 dynasties & 10 states Tang


960-1279 907-979 618-907

the type of tea


Eichu and Eisai two important people

mark 2 important culture: 1 imperial court tea 2 Temple tea

1) Tocha-tea fight/tea contest


2) Ten seeds ( Toganoo)

History-
Nara period imported tea from China Tang
A. timeline
(710-794) dynasty to japan
Prehistoric period
Saicho +kukai
Yayoi period
Heian period -limited to noble class only
Kofun period
(794-1185) -imperial court tea culture
Kamakura ^emporer saga ^Eichu
Nara period 8th
(1185-1333) 1191 Eisai priest myoe
Heian period 9th -12th
+early muromachi period -Tocha(Tea Fight/Contest)
kamakura period 12th -14th
(1333-1568) -Temple tea developed
Muromachi period 14th -
Mid-late Muromachi Formation of Chanoyu-
16th
period(1333-1568) Murata Shuko
Azuchi momoyama period
Takeno joo
16th -17th
Edo period 16th -19th Azuchi-Momoyama Establisment of wabi-cha
period Sen no Rikyu
(1568-1600)
Meiji period
Taisho period
Showa period
Important 5
1. Nara period <> Tang dynasty
- centralized government /chinese system of law-code(Ritsuryo system)
-/capital in city of nara
2. Heian period <> Song dynasty ( five dynasty and ten kingdom)
-Fujiwara family/ control government, rule on behalf of emporer/
-Xchinese style culture dominated Nara period Japanization
3. Kamakura period
-Taira family (warrior family)/dominate imperial court/Minamoto no yorimoto
-set up a military style government at kamakura (kamakura shogunate)
4. muromachi period
period of “warring states”/ plebeian form of culture among merchant class/
-like: chinese-style ink painting/ Noh drama/ kyogen/
pursuit of tea ceremony and flower arrangement born
5. Azuchi momoyama period
increasing contact with europeansemerging merchants in town
tea master sen rikyu develop tea ceremony into asthetic discipline- way of tea

Early history of …
A.Tea culture in China
1) Lu yu: The classic of tea
(3s10c)origins/cultivation/processsing/preparing and drinking tea/culture
chp.4 26 utensils
2)chp.7 Shennong: China’s sage of tea/pinoeer of “Tea and Meditation”
tea=beverage+medicinal use+meditation (for high moral and ethical standards)
3) Tea Culture in Song China : Tea contest
-quality of tea + composition of tea poems
-colour+smell+taste+new tea
-skill of making tea(whole process of using utensils)

B.Tea culture in Japan


1) Scholar Envoys -Monks
Nara period & Heian period:
- many envoys were sent to Tang-dynasty China/
leading buddhist scholars( Saicho + Kukai)+ other envoys of scholar-monks
-these buddhist brought back tea seeds from Tang China
(origin of tea in Japan)

- tea imported from Tang China= Dancha/brick tea


- (def.) tea leaves pressed into bricks
- (use.)medication + meditation
- gained popularity at the japanese imperial court in kyoto
2) Development of Tea culture in Japan
Heian period:
-emporer saga encourage drinking and cultivation of tea in japan
-Eichu emperor saga Bonshakuji temple
(tea : buddhist monk+ imperial court nobles)
Heian period + early Kamakura period:
-formal banquets ( sutra-chanting ceremonies)
>100 priests from different temple/imperial palace/pray for well being of the
nation and emperor

12th Century/ South Song dynasty (1127-1279):


-method of preparing and drinking tea changed
brick teapowdered tea
early Kamakura period:
Zen priest Eisai studied in song china
-brought tea seedlings + tea methods  japan
- seedspriest myoeplant in temple groundspread tea cultivation in japan
:”true tea”honcha > “less tea”hicha
end kamakura period:
-toganoo produce ( today uji)
-tea become competition for noble class: distinguish honcha and hicha

Muromachi:
-Zen buddhism=national life/ gov, commerce,art,education
-spread of teanew vogue/renga,poetry gathering,tea-tasting contest( tocha)

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