Around Chigusa: Tea and the Arts of Sixteenth-Century Japan

Around Chigusa (Princeton University Press) investigates how a humble jar of Chinese origin dating back to the 13th or 14th century became Chigusa, a revered, named object in the formal tea ceremony of 16th century Japan. The book’s essays put tea in dialogue with other cultural practices that reveal the larger cultural forces that influenced how artifacts used in tea were produced, circulated, and displayed.