Herbert Plutschow

Rediscovering Rikyu

And the Beginnings of the Japanese Tea Ceremony

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first comprehensive book-length study in over half a century of the celebrated Japanese tea master Rikyu, considered the father of the Tea Ceremony (cha-no-yu) that fully contextualizes tea in politics, aesthetics, ritual and art

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Brill
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 147mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9781901903355
• ISBN-10: 1901903354
• Artikelnr.: 21955657

Autorenporträt

Herbert Plutschow was born in Switzerland and educated in Switzerland, England, Spain, France, Japan and the USA and got his PhD from Columbia University, New York. He is author of some 15 books, including Four Japanese Diaries of the Middle Ages (co-author, Cornell University, 1981) and Nihon Kiko Bungaku Binran (co-author, Tokyo, 1975). He has taught at the University of Illinois, University of Zürich, Switzerland, International Christian University, University of Paris, Sorbonne, Kyoto University and Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo.