LEADER 04212nam 22004935 450 001 9910552763603321 005 20200608045044.0 010 $a0-8248-7348-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780824873486 035 $a(CKB)4100000007598655 035 $a(DE-B1597)513301 035 $a(OCoLC)1083592710 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780824873486 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000007598655 100 $a20200608h20192018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aCultivating Femininity $eWomen and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan /$fRebecca Corbett 210 1$aHonolulu : $cUniversity of Hawaii Press, $d[2019] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (202 p.) $c10 b&w illustrations, 3 color plates 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter 1. Women and Tea Culture in Early Modern Japan -- $tChapter 2. A Handbook for Elite Women?s Tea in the Eighteenth Century -- $tChapter 3. A Handbook for Women?s Tea in the Nineteenth Century -- $tChapter 4. Guides for Cultivating Femininity -- $tChapter 5. Guides for Modern Life -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex -- $tAbout the Author 330 $aThe 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 (1603?1868) and Meiji (1868?1912) periods. Viewing chanoyu from the lens of feminist and gender theory, she sheds new light on tea?s undeniable influence on the formation of modern understandings of femininity in Japan.Corbett overturns the iemoto tea school?s carefully constructed orthodox narrative by employing underused primary sources and closely examining existing tea histories. She incorporates Pierre Bourdieu?s theories of social and cultural capital and Norbert Elias?s ?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 of chanoyu to new social groups cascaded from commoner men to elite then commoner women. Shifting the focus away from male tea masters complicates the history of tea in Japan and shows how women of different social backgrounds worked within and without traditionally accepted paradigms of tea practice. The direct socioeconomic impact of the spread of tea is ultimately revealed in subsequent advances in women?s labor opportunities and an increase in female social mobility. Through their participation in chanoyu, commoner women were able to blur and lessen the status gap between themselves and women of aristocratic and samurai status. Cultivating Femininity offers a new perspective on the prevalence of tea practice among women in modern Japan. It presents a fresh, much-needed approach, one that will be appreciated by students and scholars of Japanese history, gender, and culture, as well as by tea practitioners. 606 $aJapanese tea ceremony$xHistory$y18th century 606 $aJapanese tea ceremony$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aWomen$xEconomic conditions$xJapan 606 $aWomen$xSocial conditions$xJapan 606 $aHISTORY / Asia / Japan$2bisacsh 615 0$aJapanese tea ceremony$xHistory 615 0$aJapanese tea ceremony$xHistory 615 0$aWomen$xEconomic conditions$xJapan. 615 0$aWomen$xSocial conditions$xJapan. 615 7$aHISTORY / Asia / Japan. 676 $a305.4/2/0973 700 $aCorbett$b Rebecca, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0989748 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910552763603321 996 $aCultivating femininity$92263778 997 $aUNINA