The politics of tea: Spirituality, masculinity & violence in 16th-century Japan
Australian Academy of the Humanities 2024-05-21
Summary:
Sometime around the end of Europe’s 16th-century, a Japanese tea master, Furuta Oribe, took a Korean Ido ware tea bowl and had it smashed into four pieces. Japan and Korea spent the last decade of the century at war, following Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s invasions of the Korean Joseon kingdom in 1592 and again in 1598. Japan’s […]
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