Table of Contents

pp.：  7 – 10

Preface

pp.：  11 – 14

Acknowledgements

pp.：  15 – 18

Introduction: Tea, Aesthetics and Power

pp.：  19 – 24

Tea, Authority and Identity

pp.：  21 – 21

Tea, War and Society

pp.：  22 – 24

1 What Is Twenty-first Century Tea?

pp.：  25 – 37

The Pleasures of Hakata Tea

pp.：  25 – 32

Tea Pleasures as Power

pp.：  33 – 37

2 Inventing the Nation: Japanese Culture Politicizes Nature

pp.：  38 – 59

Introduction

pp.：  38 – 39

The lethal aesthetic of ‘Japan the beautiful’

pp.：  40 – 40

Nation building demands a politicized culture

pp.：  41 – 42

Lethal transience in Meiji literature: beauty and death as citizenship

pp.：  43 – 51

Showa era painting: foreign beats native

pp.：  52 – 55

Meiji era tea: the aesthetic seduction of an ideological tool of state

pp.：  56 – 58

Conclusion

pp.：  59 – 59

3 Lethal Transience

pp.：  60 – 81

Introduction

pp.：  60 – 60

Tea as transience: divine flowers and sacred Japaneseness

pp.：  61 – 66

Wartime sakura: patriotic transience

pp.：  67 – 67

Persistent sakura

pp.：  68 – 80

Conclusion

pp.：  81 – 81

4 Japanese Harmony as Nationalism: Grand Master Tea for War and Peace

pp.：  82 – 114

Introduction

pp.：  82 – 83

Kokutai no hongi: tea as cultural nationalism

pp.：  84 – 90

Marketing militant harmony: tourism and tea

pp.：  91 – 96

Tea-room harmony: war and peace

pp.：  97 – 102

Rikyu in 1940: tea as state nationalism

pp.：  103 – 105

Tea spirit and state nationalism

pp.：  106 – 108

Tea as state nationalism: Grand Master lectures

pp.：  109 – 110

Tea for peace

pp.：  111 – 112

Conclusion

pp.：  113 – 114

5 Wartime Tea Literature: Rikyu, Hideyoshi and Zen

pp.：  115 – 148

Rikyu as representative: tea as national pride

pp.：  115 – 118

Rikyu in wartime tea literature

pp.：  119 – 125

Zen is Tea as imperialism: Zen is the sword, Zen is Bushido

pp.：  126 – 132

Wartime tea literature

pp.：  133 – 133

The Way of Tea in citizen education

pp.：  134 – 140

Debates about the values of the Way of Tea

pp.：  141 – 146

Conclusion

pp.：  147 – 148

6 Grand Master: Iemoto

pp.：  149 – 171

Introduction

pp.：  149 – 148

Historical background of the Grand Master system

pp.：  149 – 150

Sensational location: iemoto in popular culture and literature

pp.：  151 – 155

Thousand Cranes by Kawabata Yasunari

pp.：  156 – 170

Conclusion

pp.：  171 – 171

7 Tea Teachings as Power: Questioning Legitimate Authority

pp.：  172 – 198

Introduction

pp.：  172 – 174

One context: teaching and research connected

pp.：  175 – 176

Read the text so closely it alarms its protectors

pp.：  177 – 183

How discourse shapes experience in institutional contexts

pp.：  184 – 186

Reading against Anderson from outside: Kramer versus Anderson

pp.：  187 – 193

The hard reflexivity of future tea

pp.：  194 – 196

Conclusion

pp.：  197 – 198

8 Teshigahara's Rikyu as Historical Critique: Representations, Identities and Relations

pp.：  199 – 236

Introduction

pp.：  199 – 199

The film Rikyu as a considered historical intervention

pp.：  200 – 199

Written history: qualifying the legendary status of Sen no Rikyu

pp.：  200 – 208

Anecdotal accounts as national myth: tea is cultural

pp.：  209 – 212

History into film: consuming the nation

pp.：  213 – 216

Positioning the audience: genres in national cinema

pp.：  217 – 227

Tea film, tea practice: the critical power of voice-over

pp.：  228 – 233

No final position: othering the Self

pp.：  234 – 235

Conclusion

pp.：  236 – 236

9 Lethal Transience as Nationalist Fable: kumai Kei's Sen no Rikyu: Honkakubo Ibun

pp.：  237 – 267

Introduction

pp.：  237 – 237

Critique of everyday myths: locating Kumai’s work

pp.：  238 – 240

Counter-Orientalism deconstructed: lethal politics of ‘Japan the beautiful’

pp.：  241 – 242

Cinema’s resistant and reactionary framing of the nation: jidai geki

pp.：  243 – 246

Film as history: tea’s aesthetic of seppuku and sakura

pp.：  247 – 253

History into film: emphasizing transmission and ‘authenticity’

pp.：  254 – 256

Cinema as meta-history and the politics of Sen cooperation

pp.：  257 – 257

Structural outline: anecdotes as quotation marks

pp.：  258 – 262

Qualifying the narrative

pp.：  263 – 265

Protect me from what I want

pp.：  266 – 266

Conclusion

pp.：  267 – 267

10 National Identity and Tea Subjectivities

pp.：  268 – 275

Desire: shopping for authenticity

pp.：  268 – 270

Tea worlds

pp.：  271 – 272

Post-war tea as anime: ‘One bowl, one final bow’

pp.：  273 – 275

Endnotes

pp.：  276 – 313

Bibliography

pp.：  314 – 330

Index

pp.：  331 – 336