Senchado - Japanese Tea Garden Ceremony (Eugenia Choe) by Eugenia Choe

eugeniachoe — 2024-09-09 03:32:48 UTC

Senchado a Japanese Green tea ceremony that has to do with the preparation and drinking of sencha green tea. It was also "brought from China in the 1500s then developed in Kyoto." These types of ceremonies would only be used with the elites. "Eisai served tea to the ruling elite of the time," as stated by Watanabe, Takeshi. in his “Breaking Down Boundaries: A History of Chanoyu.” When tea was stating to become an elite tradition, senchado and other types of tea ceremonies were often towards the elites and aristocrats in Japan..

eugeniachoe — 2024-09-16 22:07:26 UTC

In the Tang Dynasty, people would have ceremonies similar to the one shown in this video. Another video that was shown in class, showed a similar process of making tea. I thought it was interesting that they mixed salt with the grinded up tea because we don't usually see people in today's society mixing salt with their tea. Drinking tea was considered to be a life changing experience and it was seen as an elixir for the immortal. The reading from last weeks lecture shows that "the taste of tea" was put "above those of the canonical liquids found in the Rites of Zhou." A lot of poetry showed that tea was seen as a drink that the emperor of higher people of status could drink.

eugeniachoe — 2024-09-23 19:58:30 UTC

In this video, they say "We can use tea to learn about every aspect of the Song Dynasty people's life," and we learned that tea was used as a way to define class in the Song Dynasty. This can also be seen in last week's reading. The Japanese way of tea by Sen Soshitsu said that there were schools for tea and these schools were mostly filled with male students. However, around this time, these schools for tea were "an essential means for training young ladies in proper etiquette, bearing, and

aesthetic taste." These schools were also mostly for higher-class citizens which showed that specific tea practices were only done with higher people of status.

eugeniachoe — 2024-09-29 21:27:59 UTC

Blind Macha tasting match also known as Tocha is a play that competes for victory and defeat by drinking the taste of the popular in the Middle Ages. The participants must guess what kind of tea is being served and whoever gets the most right is the winner of the match. This is similar to the Pitelka reading we had because the reading explains that "Gifting famous objects and bestowing privileges such as the right to employ tea masters, in other words, represented moments in which warrior society itself was constituted." I found that this part of the passage was similar to this video because when people have tea matches they're in a sense showing their status with the different varieties of tea that they have alongside the utensils and tools they have to make the tea.

eugeniachoe — 2024-10-06 23:07:07 UTC

It was interesting to see the whole process of the potter making the Raku ware matcha bowls. I didn't think that all of them were handmade because even though the indentations and shapes of the bowls were different each time I thought it was a more factory-like process since matcha bowls are used frequently around the world. I also thought the bowl shape and figure looked familiar because I have bowls from Korea that look similar to the Raku tea bowls in this video. In the reading called "Raku Ware" by Chikamatsu, they explained that a potter from Korea came to Japan and made tea bowls like the ones shown in the video. In the reading, it doesn't specifically say whether or not this potter from Korea made this exact shape, so I'm wondering if the shape of this bowl was made by this Korean potter.

eugeniachoe — 2024-10-14 02:47:13 UTC

This video interested me because I didn't know there was a Korean traditional Darye which is surprising because I love tea and i'm Korean. I noticed that the utensils and different tools used in this traditional tea tasting video is also shown in the reading given in the past week. On page 56 in the Book of Korean tea, there is a page of all the "earthenware representing an early tea culture of the three kingdom period." Specifically, in the video they show a wide bowl called "soo wook" that is used to cool down the tea is also shown in the image in the reading. It was interesting to see that the bowls were similar and different in many ways. The video shows a more modernized version of the bowl since these bowls are artifacts to show what the "soo wook" looked like during the three kingdom period.

eugeniachoe — 2024-10-28 06:48:06 UTC

I chose to watch this video because I always wanted to go to the Japanese Tea Garden in San Francisco. The video explained the importance of aesthetics when it comes to tea gardens. The specific stone placement with the trees and river reflection all play a role when it comes to Japanese tea gardens. The combination of all the architecture present in this video play important roles for the zen created in the environment. This is similar to the reading because author or "Cha-No-Yu" explains that "Teaism [...] combines in itself the essence of zen, poetry, and bushido." Poetry and zen is closely tied together because of the calm energy it brings to readers. This can be related to the calm environment present in Japanese Tea Gardens.

eugeniachoe — 2024-11-04 07:58:49 UTC

It was interesting to see a YouTube reel given as a video to watch for the padlet assignment! I think that this is a nice change of videos because I also love watching reels. This video relates to the reading called "Cha-No-Yu" because they explain how tea ceremonies are ussed as aesthetics so a lot of time is used to prepare the tea.

eugeniachoe — 2024-11-11 04:20:12 UTC

In early 19th-century Japan, the bunjin also known as Japanese literati showed ideas similar to the ones found in Chinese literati. By using scholarly works like painting, calligraphy, and poetry, people who would drink sencha were able to show their values and class by the expensiveness of their different painting and poetry. People who would drink tea together would form their own groups that were different from the normal societal hierarchy rules which was enforced by the military government known as the bakufu. These gatherings were creative and intellectual exchanges which were a form of silent protest or a way of expressing one self. Artists like Aoki Mokubei shown in the link above shows the merging of Japanese and Chinese traditions by combining his work as both a potter and painter in the Nanga style. Mokubei’s artworks show sencha tea preparation by blending these two cultures.

eugeniachoe — 2024-11-26 08:25:00 UTC

"Georgia O’Keeffe and The Book of Tea" connects to The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō, as both emphasize the beauty found in tea rituals. Georgia O’Keeffe’s admiration for Okakura’s work, says "a butterfly is a flower with wings," which reflects her love for the book’s poetic nature. Okakura’s exploration of the tea ceremony as an art that “sheds light on our mundane existence” is similar to Christine Taylor Patten’s observation of O’Keeffe’s life as showing similar principles of the tea ceremony: “her humility, her exactness, her utterly respectful exactness.” Like the tea ceremony, O’Keeffe’s actions like folding a handkerchief to positioning a stone, emphasize Okakura’s celebration of mindfulness.