Chanoyu, widely known as the tea ceremony, developed in Japan in the 1516th centuries. In it, such ordinary acts of daily life as serving a meal and tea to guests have been raised to the status of religious discipline. The book is a collection of writings that seek to illuminate the nature and aesthetics of chanoyu as a Buddhist path.
Beginning with works on the art of linked verse (renga) that directly influenced the development of the way of tea, this book includes documents that are associated with the central figures in the formation of chanoyu in the spirit of wabi--the unsullied poverty of the hermit's thatched hut--and that have been treasured by practitioners down to the present.
ISBN
0895819090 (Library Binding); 0895819104 (Trade Paper); 0875730736 (Original ISBN for this Edition)
