2022Journal articleFree to read
Nobuko Toyosawa
Archiv orientální
With the prevalence of matcha desserts, as well as the well-publicized health benefits of matcha today, readers might assume from the title of Robert Hellyer's new book that it is about the American cultural borrowing of Japanese tea practices.Contrary to that expectation, Hellyer tells a story of how the global tea trade facilitated the growth of tea-drinking cultures in both the U.S. and Japan in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries when tea became an essential component of the national diet.Adopting the term "teaways" from the more well-known concept of "foodways" that investigates all activities associated with food, the book examines how tea played a role in the intersection of culture and history.Although tea and tea practices came to Japan from China during the Heian period (794-1185 CE), drinking tea became more distinctly Japanese after the late twelfth century.During the medieval era, Zen Buddhist monks promoted tea for medicinal purposes, and social and cultural elites developed "the tea ceremony (cha no yu), in which matcha is prepared, served, and consumed in a series of intricate rituals" (p.9).At the same time, sites of cultural exchange and production shifted during the Edo period (1600-1868) leading the popularization of tea within all facets of society from aristocracy to the everyday marketplace.Various regions made their name for their renowned types of teas, and tea was served on many occasions, spanning social divides.Immediately after the American Revolution, Americans followed the tea drinking practices, such as the consumption of green and black teas, of the mother country, England.However, Americans soon "chose to capitalize on a fruit of independence" (p.20) and utilize the Canton trade rather than depend on the English East India Company…
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Nobuko Toyosawa. (2022). Hellyer, Robert. Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups. Archiv orientální. https://doi.org/10.47979/aror.j.90.1.216-218
DOI: 10.47979/aror.j.90.1.216-218
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