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gurdymonkeyAn essay on the history and anthropology of tea. Now THAT'S what I'm talking about.
http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0501/tea.htm
Someone's online tea bibliography. (Look, Ma, descriptions of content! What a concept! Send this man a cookie at once!) One of the titles is by the author of the preceding article, which bodes very well.
http://www.zencha.org/chareading.htm
An online version of Fukuita's 1937 Tea Cult of Japan. Part of a series of tourism publications for Japan's national railroad system.
http://www.terebess.hu/english/fukukita.html
An 1892 article from the San Francisco Call on Tea Ceremony. (Why yes, as a matter of fact, I do find perceptions of Japan as filtered through Western eyes a fascinating subject in it's own right.)
http://coffee.quickfound.net/japanese_tea_ceremony_1892.html
Urasenke San Francisco http://www.urasenke.org/
Consulate-General of Japan, San Francisco page on tea ceremony instruction programs. http://www.sf.us.emb-japan.go.jp/en/e_m07_04_04.htm
Tea at the Asian Art Museum http://www.asianart.org/teaceremony.htm
Hm. I don't believe I have anything on for Sunday 11/9/08. Anybody want to join me?
http://www.anthropoetics.ucla.edu/ap0501/tea.htm
Someone's online tea bibliography. (Look, Ma, descriptions of content! What a concept! Send this man a cookie at once!) One of the titles is by the author of the preceding article, which bodes very well.
http://www.zencha.org/chareading.htm
An online version of Fukuita's 1937 Tea Cult of Japan. Part of a series of tourism publications for Japan's national railroad system.
http://www.terebess.hu/english/fukukita.html
An 1892 article from the San Francisco Call on Tea Ceremony. (Why yes, as a matter of fact, I do find perceptions of Japan as filtered through Western eyes a fascinating subject in it's own right.)
http://coffee.quickfound.net/japanese_tea_ceremony_1892.html
Urasenke San Francisco http://www.urasenke.org/
Consulate-General of Japan, San Francisco page on tea ceremony instruction programs. http://www.sf.us.emb-japan.go.jp/en/e_m07_04_04.htm
Tea at the Asian Art Museum http://www.asianart.org/teaceremony.htm
Hm. I don't believe I have anything on for Sunday 11/9/08. Anybody want to join me?
1:00 pm and 2:30 pm seatings, Tearoom, Japanese Galleries, $8 members, $20 general (includes museum admission) Space limited. Tickets beginning October 8: online or Admissions Desk
Watch and learn about the Japanese "Way of Tea" as you are served your own tea sweet and bowl of whisked green tea. Space is limited, pre-registration advised. (NOTE - that's "tea sweet," not "sweet tea.")
