2021Journal article
Meghen Jones
Monumenta Nipponica
Reviewed by: Gathering for Tea in Modern Japan: Class, Culture and Consumption in the Meiji Period by Taka Oshikiri Meghen Jones Gathering for Tea in Modern Japan: Class, Culture and Consumption in the Meiji Period. By Taka Oshikiri. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018. 208 pages. Hardcover, £95.00/$130.00; softcover, £29.99/$40.95. Why and how did chanoyu, the formalized preparation and consumption of powdered green tea, survive after it lost the patronage of the Tokugawa shogunate? This is the central question of Taka Oshikiri’s Gathering for Tea in Modern Japan: Class, Culture and Consumption in the Meiji Period. Oshikiri acknowledges previous explanations—that by the mid-Meiji era, chanoyu as traditional Japanese culture provided a sense of national unity; that, for women, the state initiated instruction in its practice; and that iemoto (family heads) played key roles in its continuance. In contrast, Oshikiri contends that a rather scattershot array of individuals and groups carried the mantle of chanoyu through the transformative decades of the Meiji era and that the variety of people responsible reflects the fragmentation of Meiji society itself, as well-known tea masters and nonprofessionals alike maneuvered through shifts in class structures and other challenges of the period. Based on a dissertation and article on related topics, her book reveals how chanoyu remained an elite practice while also incorporating a new constellation of actors thriving within modern systems of institutional support.1 Oshikiri’s emphasis is on the social nature of Meiji chanoyu, rather than its ritual-istic or aesthetic aspects. Rejecting the translation of chanoyu as “tea ceremony,” she defines it as “a highly formalized sociocultural activity elaborated from the consumption of…
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Meghen Jones. (2021). Gathering for Tea in Modern Japan: Class, Culture and Consumption in the Meiji Period by Taka Oshikiri. Monumenta Nipponica. https://doi.org/10.1353/mni.2021.0011
DOI: 10.1353/mni.2021.0011
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