First of all.... not mine. Just thought someone might be interested in them.
http://cgi.ebay.com/1851-Japanese-Tea-C ... 286.c0.m14
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Oct 1st, '09, 16:53
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Re: Chanoyu woodblock print books on EBay
Lovely! There is already a bid on it. I hope some teachatter is bidding and buying it and then s/he can take photos of the book pages 
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Re: Chanoyu woodblock print books on EBay
Interesting! And one of the tea canisters pictured looks like a very similar design by one I own from Marriage Frères.
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Re: Chanoyu woodblock print books on EBay
I'm doing my best not to bid. It's rather hard.
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Re: Chanoyu woodblock print books on EBay
I finally got around to checking them out. Very interesting offering!
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Re: Chanoyu woodblock print books on EBay
Me too. I "blew my budget" for the year on Japanese books in Japan this summer on yet ever more pottery books.tenuki wrote:I'm doing my best not to bid. It's rather hard.
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Re: Chanoyu woodblock print books on EBay
Wow, still only 1 bid @ 100. Not bad for 10 books from 1851.
It's hard enough for me to read modern Japanese, so I wouldn't even want to try to tackle 160 year old Japanese. Yeesh.
Maybe neat for show, but for show, you'd probably only need one, not 10? Oh well, still seems like an obscene deal for such old books...
It's hard enough for me to read modern Japanese, so I wouldn't even want to try to tackle 160 year old Japanese. Yeesh.
Maybe neat for show, but for show, you'd probably only need one, not 10?
Oh well, still seems like an obscene deal for such old books...
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Re: Chanoyu woodblock print books on EBay
A friend gave me volumes 3-5 of the set as a birthday gift one year. The images are certainly very appealing. Even as a tea-ceremony student, I find the books more frustrating than not, since so much is text and therefore opaque to me. Of course your mileage may vary!
From the JAANUS entry for CHASHIKI KOGETSUSHOU:
Written in the year Kaei 4 (1851), the full set of guidebooks contained three books in six volumes, and concerned the rituals and utensils used at tea ceremonies. They are attributed to Kogetsu 湖月, a pen name perhaps, but little is known about him. The first two books comprised volumes 1 and 2; the second two books comprised volumes 3 and 4. These books imitated the original CHASHIKI KAGETSUSHUU 茶式花月集 dated 1873. In 1883 five books in ten volumes were published. The book's date and an artist is reported in: IWANAMI (publisher), "KOKUSHO SO MOKUROKU the Japanese classical books catalogue of the maximum scale"; 3394965.
From the JAANUS entry for CHASHIKI KOGETSUSHOU:
Written in the year Kaei 4 (1851), the full set of guidebooks contained three books in six volumes, and concerned the rituals and utensils used at tea ceremonies. They are attributed to Kogetsu 湖月, a pen name perhaps, but little is known about him. The first two books comprised volumes 1 and 2; the second two books comprised volumes 3 and 4. These books imitated the original CHASHIKI KAGETSUSHUU 茶式花月集 dated 1873. In 1883 five books in ten volumes were published. The book's date and an artist is reported in: IWANAMI (publisher), "KOKUSHO SO MOKUROKU the Japanese classical books catalogue of the maximum scale"; 3394965.