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Aiden Ranford
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In the lands of the old state of Chu 3 they have meng zhang, 4 while here in Japan we have Cha-no-yu 5 , and once, long ago, Zhang You, of Tang, authored a treatise on the proper enjoyment of tea.6 For my part, I will drink poor quality tea as readily as I will make poor-quality jokes; in these gesaku 7 manuscripts I write from morning tea to evening's tea, I Niwasōji Chinbutsuchawa 1Translation by Aiden Ranford, with the invaluable help of Ōya Taeko.1 庭荘子珍物茶話.This title puns the "cleaning"(sōji 掃除) part of "garden cleaning" (niwa sōji 庭掃除) with the Chinese philosopher Zhuanzi 荘子(jp: Sōshi) , and the "tea house" (chaya 茶屋) from a type of teahouse called a chinbutsu chaya (珍物茶屋) , which collects unusual things for patrons to look at while they have their drink, with chawa 茶話, "tea talk."The cleaning/Zhuangzi pun is used because this work is set up as a sequel to the book described in note 14. ２ This introduction uses a technique known as tsukushi尽くし("exhausting") , which involves inserting as many references to a particular theme as possible into a short space.In this case, the theme is "tea," inkeeping with the title.The combination of lyricism and wordplay is not possible to preserve in translation, but the translator has attempted to make the gist comprehensible.The word "tea" and some variations of it are sometimes used in the meaning, "to make light of."3 The lands on which the Warring States period State of Chu existed; roughly equivalent to modern-day Hubei and Hunan.4 茗戦.Type of tea-grading pastime.5 茶の湯.Alternative name for sadō 茶道, the collection of traditions and schools of tea appreciation.6 Referring to the treatise on tea appreciation, Jian chasui ji 煎茶水記, by Zhang You 張又.─ 2 ─ make light tea of those around me, as they in turn do of me.For today, I have…
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Taste, aroma, color and how people perceive matcha.
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Aiden Ranford. (2025). Niwasōji Chinbutsuchawa. Institutional Repositories DataBase (IRDB). https://doi.org/10.34321/tf02036712
DOI: 10.34321/tf02036712
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