Handmade culture: raku potters, patrons, and tea practitioners in Japan 9780824828851, 0824828852, 9780824829704, 0824829700

Table of contents :
Contents......Page 6
Note to Readers......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Introduction......Page 16
Chapter One. The Global and the Local in the Origins of the Raku Technique......Page 28
Chapter Two. Anomie and Innovation in Kyoto: Ceramic Professionals, Amateurs, and Consumers......Page 56
Chapter Three. Inventing Early Modern Identity: The Birth of the Raku House......Page 84
Chapter Four. Institutionalization of the Iemoto Gaze: Tea, Raku, and the Iemoto System......Page 116
Chapter Five. Reproduction and Appropriation in the Nationwide Dispersal of the Raku Technique......Page 138
Chapter Six. Inventing Modern Identity: The Collapse of Warrior Patronage, the Rise of Individualism and Nationalism......Page 160
Epilogue: Authenticity and Connoisseurship......Page 188
Notes......Page 194
Bibliography......Page 238
Index......Page 258

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Handmade Culture

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Handmade Culture Raku Potters, Patrons, and

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Tea Practitioners in Japan

Morgan Pitelka

University of Hawai‘i Press Honolulu

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© 2005 University of Hawai‘i Press All rights reserved Printed in the United States of America 10 09 08 07 06 05 6 5 4 3 2 1 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Pitelka, Morgan. Handmade culture : raku potters, patrons, and tea practitioners in Japan / Morgan Pitelka. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-2885-1 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-8248-2885-2 (hardcover : alk.paper) ISBN-13: 978-0-8248-2970-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0-8248-2970-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Raku pottery. 2. Potters — Japan — Biography. I. Title. NK 4340.R3P57 2005 738'.0952'1864 — dc22 2005007864 Publication of this book has been assisted by a grant from the Kajiyama Publications Fund for Japanese History, Culture, and Literature at the University of Hawai‘i at Ma¯noa. University of Hawai‘i Press books are printed on acidfree paper and meet the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Council on Library Resources. Designed by April Leidig-Higgins Printed by Thomson-Shore, Inc.

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CONTENTS

Note to Readers vii Preface ix Introduction 1 ONE

The Global and the Local in the Origins of the Raku Technique 13

T WO

Anomie and Innovation in Kyoto: Ceramic Professionals, Amateurs, and Consumers 41

T HREE

Inventing Early Modern Identity: The Birth of the Raku House 69

FOUR

Institutionalization of theB^fhmhGaze: Tea, Raku, and theB^fhmhSystem 89

F IVE

Reproduction and Appropriation in the Nationwide Dispersal of the Raku Technique 111

SIX

Inventing Modern Identity: The Collapse of Warrior Patronage, the Rise of Individualism and Nationalism 133 Epilogue: Authenticity and Connoisseurship 161 Notes 167 Bibliography 211 Index 231