Recommended Reading
Sen, Soshitsu
Tea Life, Tea Mind.
New York and Tokyo; Weatherhill Inc., 1979
Chado.
New York and Tokyo; Weatherhill Inc., 1971
Chanoyu: The Urasenke Tradition of Tea. *
New York and Tokyo; Weatherhill Inc., 1988.
The Japanese Way of Tea: From Its Origins in China to Sen Rikyu.
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1998.
The Spirit of Tea.
Kyoto; Tankosha Publishing Ltd., 2002.
“Chanoyu Quarterly, Tea and the Arts of Japan.” *
Gretchen Mittwer, ed. Urasenke Foundation, Kyoto, Japan. Limited numbers of certain back issues may be available for purchase from the Urasenke Foundation San Francisco.
The New Way of Tea.
Catalogue from joint exhibition at the Japan Society and Asian Society, NY.
Tokyo: International Chado Culture Foundation, 2002.
Castile, Rand
The Way of Tea.
New York; Weatherhill Inc., 1971.
Hirota, Dennis
The Wind in the Pines: Classic Writings of the Way of Tea as a Buddhist Path.
Fremont, CA: Asian Humanities Press, 1995.
Varley, Paul
Tea in Japan: Essays on the History of Chanoyu.
ed. with Kumakura Isao. Honolulu; University of Hawaii Press, 1989.
Mitwer, Henry
The Art of Chabana: the Flowers for the Tea Ceremony.
Rutland, Vermont and Tokyo;
Tuttle Co.,1974.
[out of print but worth searching for]
Suzuki, Daisetsu
Zen and Japanese Culture.
New York; Bolligen Foundation Inc. and Princeton University Press, 1970.
See pp. 269 – 328.
Hall, John W.
Warlords, Artists, and Commoners.
ed. George Elison et al. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1987.
Berry, Mary E.
The Culture of Civil War in Kyoto.
Berkeley:University of California Press, 1994.
* available from the Urasenke Foundation San Francisco. Discount provided for members of the Urasenke Foundation.
