{"product_id":"chanoyu-for-spring-chanoyu-para-la-primavera-9781887276429","title":"Chanoyu for spring Chanoyu para la primavera","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Rolando Pérez\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Cool Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Cool Grove Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSpring marks a transitional time between the greyness of winter and the brightness of summer. And in this way, this \u003cem\u003eChanoyu for Spring\/Chanoyu para la primavera\u003c\/em\u003e explores the complexity of our emotions. As Lawrence Durrell writes in \u003cem\u003eClea\u003c\/em\u003e, the fourth and final volume of \u003cem\u003eThe Alexandria Quartet\u003c\/em\u003e: \"How is one to make clear a single truth about the human heart?\". The question itself exposes the paradox: it is not that we are duplicitous, but that we are multiple. Our inner lives, like Spring itself, are transitional, layered, and irreducible to a single tone.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChanoyu for Spring\/Chanoyu para la primavera\u003c\/em\u003e is the second volume of the quartet Chanoyu for the Seasons \/Chanoyu para las estaciones. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe phrase cha-no-yu (茶の湯) means \"hot water for tea\" and refers beyond its literal meaning to the Japanese tea ceremony. This refined practice was influenced by Zen Buddhism, in which the preparation, serving, and consumption of matcha tea are carried out with a deep sense of aesthetics, harmony, and contemplation. In the first paragraph of \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Tea \u003c\/em\u003e(1906), Kakuzo Okakura writes: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTea began as medicine and grew into a beverage. In China, in the eighth century, it entered the realm of poetry as one of the polite amusements. The fifteenth century saw Japan ennoble into a religion of aestheticism...Teaism is a cult founded on the adoration of the beautiful among the sordid facts of everyday existence...It is essentially a worship of the imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something in this impossible thing we call life.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis brief and concise description of the tea ceremony could easily be applied to the composition of the short Japanese poems known as waka, with the most illustrious of these being the tanka, which was composed and incorporated in the works of writers such as Ōtomo Yakamochi, Saigyō (\u003cem\u003eMountain Hermit's Collection\u003c\/em\u003e), Sei Shōnagon (\u003cem\u003eThe Pillow Book\u003c\/em\u003e), Murasaki Shikibu (\u003cem\u003eThe Tale of Genji\u003c\/em\u003e), and in the 20th century by Ishikawa Takuboku and Yosano Akiko. Yet, the most popular of the wakas in our time is the haiku, which continues to be practiced-often very poorly-all over the world, like tea haphazardly served in a plastic cup. In this book, however, the reader will come across not only tanka and haiku, but also the extended tanka or \u003cem\u003ebussokusekika\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003echōka\u003c\/em\u003e or long poems (also composed of 5 and 7 syllabic combinations).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cool Grove Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47969048428695,"sku":"9781887276429","price":1370.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781887276429.webp?v=1782920266","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/chanoyu-for-spring-chanoyu-para-la-primavera-9781887276429","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}