Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in Japan 9780824862749

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

Handmade Culture is the first comprehensive and cohesive study in any language to examine Raku, one of Japan's most

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Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan 9780824873486

The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on

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Gathering for Tea in Modern Japan: Class, Culture and Consumption in the Meiji Period 9781350014015, 9781350014046, 9781350014008

By examining chanoyu – the custom of consuming matcha tea – in the Meiji period, Gathering for Tea in Modern Japan inves

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Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice 9780804784795

The tea ceremony persists as one of the most evocative symbols of Japan. Originally a pastime of elite warriors in premo

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Japan: Doing Business in a Unique Culture

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Urban Culture in Pre-War Japan 9781138392014

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Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan 9781487516161

Magazines & the Making of Mass Culture in Japan is a cultural history explaining the birth and early mechanisms of m

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Embodying Culture: Pregnancy in Japan and Israel 9780813548302

Embodying Culture is an ethnographically grounded exploration of pregnancy in two different cultures—Japan and Israel—bo

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Magazines and the Making of Mass Culture in Japan 9781487516161

Magazines & the Making of Mass Culture in Japan is a cultural history explaining the birth and early mechanisms of m

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Gender, Culture, and Disaster in Post-3.11 Japan 1350122491, 9781350122499

The Great East Japan Disaster – a compound catastrophe of earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown that began on March

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