Title : The Tea Master - Yasushi Inoue - book

• Summary

It's 1591, in the midst of the feudal revolution. The Taiko, the emperor's advisors, are working to unify Japan. The tea men, their mentors, are preparing ceremonies to help them find Zen peace. Rikyu, the tea ceremony master attached to the governor, commits hara-kiri.
Six years after his death, the monk Honkakubo recalls the memory of his master. Rikyu had invented "simple" tea, stripped of luxury. Why did he kill himself? Who ordered it? In his journal, Honkakubo recalls his encounters with great tea masters and notes imaginary conversations with Rikyu beyond death. The dream that concludes the book finally provides an answer to the questions he has been asking himself for thirty years.
In sixteenth-century Japan, the Way of Tea became a ritual. Tea ceremony masters were important figures, alternately protected and rejected by those in power. Inoue wrote this book based on recovered manuscripts, and it suggests that these ceremonies were the site of secret negotiations. He meticulously and poetically details each gesture and each utensil, introducing us to an increasingly pure ritual.

• EAN : 9782234049222
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