TY - BOOK AU - Corbett, Rebecca AB - The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical role in tea culture (chanoyu). In Cultivating Femininity, Rebecca Corbett writes women back into this history and shows how tea practice for women was understood, articulated, and promoted in the Edo (1603–1868) and Meiji (1868–1912) periods. Viewing chanoyu from the lens of feminist and gender theory, she sheds new light on tea’s undeniable influence on the formation of modern understandings of femininity in Japan. Cultivating Femininity offers a new perspective on the prevalence of tea practice among women in modern Japan. It presents a fresh, much-needed approach, one that will be appreciated by students and scholars of Japanese history, gender, and culture, as well as by tea practitioners. DO - 10.2307/j.ctv3zp062 ID - OAPEN ID: 648362 ID - OAPEN ID: OCN: 1038392407 ID - OAPEN ID: http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/30216 KW - History KW - History KW - chanoyu KW - Japanese tea culture KW - modernity KW - practice KW - Daimyo KW - Edo KW - Edo period KW - Ii Naosuke KW - Meiji (era) KW - Shoo L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30216/1/648362.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30216/1/648362.pdf L1 - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/30216/1/648362.pdf LA - English LK - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/31348 PB - University of Hawai'i Press PP - Honolulu PY - 2018-03-31 SN - 9780824878405;9780824878399 TI - Cultivating Femininity : Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan ER -