ABSTRACT

The subject of the tea ceremony is well researched both in and outside of Japan, but the women who practice it are hardly ever discussed. The Tea Ceremony and Women's Empowerment in Modern Japan rectifies this by discussing the meaning of the Japanese tea ceremony for women practitioners in Japan from World War II to the present day. It examines how lay tea ceremony practitioners have been transforming this cultural activity while being, in turn, transformed by it.

chapter |22 pages

Introduction

part 1|46 pages

The tea ceremony as bodily discipline

chapter 1|20 pages

The tea ceremony as bodily discipline

chapter 2|24 pages

Bodily discipline and myths

part 2|31 pages

Two postwar phenomena in the tea ceremony

part 3|99 pages

Women's tea ceremony today

chapter 4|19 pages

Shachū and women's tea ceremony networks

chapter 5|28 pages

The past re-presented

chapter |6 pages

Conclusion