Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan by Rebecca CorbettThe overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical...
HAIKYO: THE MODERN RUINS OF JAPANWith mazes of expressways pushing scores of traffic through action filled, neon lit cities, there is perhaps no better platform than...
THE TEABOWL : EAST AND WEST by Bonnie KemskeThe teabowl has become an iconic form in contemporary ceramics. Having travelled from Japan, where it was an inherent part of chanoyu, or...
SOETSU YANAGI : SELECTED ESSAYS ON JAPANESE FOLK CRAFTSSixteen essays by Soetsu Yanagi, key figure of the Japanese folk craft (Mingei) movement. A must read for anybody who liked Yanagi's book...