Author: TOMINAGA NANGAI:
Title: [TEA / JAPAN] Chaki meikeihen (A selection of tea utensils). Two volumes. Nagoya, Nagoya Shorin, Tempo 9 (1838).
Description: . Pp. (v), 58; 63. With more than 100 woodcut-printed vessels, all except three coloured. The later half of volume two with several tiny wormholes. Bound in the traditional Japanese fashion, stitching renewed, original paper wrappers with title labels. Preface dated Tempo 8 (1837). First edition.Interesting and valuable manual of the famous Raku tea bowls and other wares used in the traditional Japanese tea ceremony. Many are examples from the collection of Sen no Rikyû, the Japanese tea master living in the 16th century, a collection which had the most profound influence on the wabi-cha tradition. The wabi-cha tea tradition emphasized simplicity. Rikyû had a tile maker, named Chôjirô, who made hand-shaped tea bowls for use in the wabi-cha ceremony. Tominaga Nangai (1774-1854) was a national scholar, skilled artist and versed in waka poetry and tea ceremony.There are 45 different Raku tea bowls illustrated and described with detailed measurements. Followed by many water containers and thirty-two vases made of different materials. The preface mentions important potters of Raku-ware and the work ends with a list of famous tea objects together with their collectors.

Keywords: East Asia, japan, japanese, japon, asia, asie, asien, asiatic, tea, utensils, culture, woodblock, illustrated, tea ceremony, wabi-cha, raku,


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