Chanoyu

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Chanoyu

• Literally means hot water for tea
• Started by Zen monks as helping monks falling
  asleep became increasing into demand for its
  taste and then spread to monastery and samuri.
• Ideas of wabi means beauty that found in poverty
  and simplicity such as rough, simple and
  irregular
• sabi means beautiful of well-seasoned, refined
  and rusty things
• Wabi and sabi refers to a beauty of things
  modest, humble, and unconventional.
• Guests 5 in number
• Number of sips 3 and a half

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5.25 Sen no Rikyu, Taian Tea house, Kyoto, c.
1582
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Hokusai (1760-1849)

• Hokusai is a master of landscape printing.
• His famous series is entitled Thirty-Six Views of
  Mount Fuji, depicting many post towns between Edo
  and Kyoto.

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5-31 Hokusai, The Great Wave off Kanagawa, from
Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji series Edo period,
ca. 1826-1833
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Hiroshige (1797-1858)

• He was born in Edo and belonged to the samuri
  class
• He was a master of landscape he tried to covey a
  sense of the season
• His last series was entitled One Hundred Famous
  Views of Edo, depicting activities around the
  capital city
• He used linear perspective

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5-32 Ando Hiroshige, Ohashi Bridge in the Rain.
From One Hundred Famous Views of Edo, (1797-1859)