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The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical role in tea culture ( chanoyu ). In Cultivating Femininity, Rebecca Corbett writes women back into this history and shows how tea practice for women was understood, articulated, and promoted in the Edo (16031868) and Meiji (18681912) periods. Viewing chanoyu from the lens of feminist and gender theory, she sheds new light on teas undeniable influence on the formation of modern understandings of femininity in Japan. Corbett overturns the iemoto tea schools carefully constructed orthodox narrative by employing underused primary sources and closely examining existing tea histories. She incorporates Pierre Bourdieus theories of social and cultural capital and Norbert Eliass civilizing process to explore the economic and social incentives for women taking part in chanoyu . Although the iemoto system sought to increase its control over every aspect of tea, including book production, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century popular texts aimed specifically at women evidence the spread of tea culture beyond parameters set by the schools. The expansion

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Author

Rebecca Corbett [Corbett, Rebecca]

Publisher

University of Hawai'i Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780824873493

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Science, Folklore

Rating

4.5 / 5 (45 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14