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FREE THE OLD TEA SELLER: LIFE AND ZEN POETRY IN 18TH CENTURY KYOTO PDF Baisao,Norman Waddell | 222 pages | 01 Jul 2010 | COUNTERPOINT | 9781582434827 | English | Berkeley, United States The Old Tea Seller Quotes by Baisao The history of tea in Japan began as The Old Tea Seller: Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto as the 8th century, when the first known references were made in Japanese records. Tea became a drink of the religious classes in Japan when Japanese priests and envoys sent to China to learn about its culture brought tea to Japan. The first form of tea brought from China was probably brick tea. Tea became a drink of the royal classes when Emperor Saga encouraged the growth of tea plants. Seeds were imported from China, and cultivation in Japan began. Ujiwith its strategic location near the capital at Kyotobecame Japan's first major tea-producing region during this period. Beginning in the 13th and 14th centuries, Japanese tea culture developed the distinctive features for which it is known today, and the Japanese tea ceremony emerged as a key component of that culture. In the following centuries, production increased and tea became a staple of the general public. The development of sencha in the 18th century led to the creation of distinctive new styles of green tea which now dominate tea consumption in Japan. In The Old Tea Seller: Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto 19th and 20th centuries, industrialization and automation transformed the Japanese tea industry into a highly efficient operation, capable of producing large quantities of tea despite Japan's limited arable land area. The first Japanese contact with tea most likely occurred in the 8th century during the Nara periodwhen Japan sent several diplomatic missions to Chang'anthe capital of China's Tang dynasty. These early delegations brought back knowledge of Chinese culture and practices, as well as paintings, literature, and other artifacts. He returned to Japan in One or both of them are thought to have brought back the first tea seeds to Japan during this trip. This is the earliest reliable reference to tea drinking in Japan. Subsequently, the emperor is said to have ordered the establishment of five tea plantations near the capital. He was fond of Chinese poetrymuch of which praised the benefits of tea. Emperor Saga's poetry, and that of others at his imperial court, also make references to the drinking of tea. Subsequent writings from the Heian period indicate that tea was cultivated and consumed on a small scale by Buddhist monks as part of their religious practice, and that the imperial family and members of the nobility also drank tea. The practice, however, was not yet popular outside these circles. In it, Lu Yu describes the process for steaming, roasting, and compressing the tea into bricks, as well as the process of grinding the tea into powder and stirring it to a froth in hot water The Old Tea Seller: Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto to consumption. The Zen monk Eisaifounder of the Rinzai school of Buddhism, is generally credited for popularizing tea in Japan. By the 15th century, however, Uji tea surpassed that of Toganoo, and the terms honcha and hicha came to refer to Uji tea and non-Uji tea, respectively. It opens with the statement that "Tea is the most wonderful medicine for nourishing one's health; it is the secret of long life. Eisai subscribed to a theory that the five organs each preferred foods with different flavors, and he concluded that because tea is bitter, and "the heart loves bitter things", it would especially benefit the heart. Eisai was instrumental in introducing tea consumption to the samurai class. Soon, green tea became a staple among cultured people in Japan—a brew for the gentry and the Buddhist priesthood alike. Production grew and tea became increasingly accessible, though still a privilege enjoyed mostly by the upper classes. They featured wall-to-wall tatami covering in contrast to earlier plain wooden floors, and a shoin desk writing desk built into the wall. These rooms were the predecessors of modern Japanese living rooms. He advocated combining imported Chinese wares with rough ceramics made in Japan, in an effort to "harmonize Japanese and Chinese tastes". This intentional usage of simple or flawed utensils with a wabi aesthetic came to be referred to as wabicha. He lived during the upheavals of the Sengoku periodin which political and social structures were radically transformed. At this time, the tea ceremony played a prominent role in politics and diplomacy. Nobunaga went as far as to prohibit anyone other than his closest allies from practicing it. Developments in the Japanese tea ceremony during the Sengoku period motivated new trends in Japanese teaware. Oribe's preference for green and black glazes and irregular shapes led to a new style of pottery called Oribe ware. Modern Japanese matcha is made by grinding loose dry tea leaves rather than the bricks of tea originally introduced from China into powder. Matcha's sweet flavor and deep green color are created by shading the tea leaves from the sun in the last weeks before plucking, increasing The Old Tea Seller: Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto chlorophyll and decreasing the tannin content of the leaves. Under the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan's Edo period —new forms of tea emerged, accompanied by new developments in tea culture. Influenced by China's Ming dynastysteeped loose leaf tea emerged as an alternative to powdered tea, leading to the development of sencha. By the 14th century, the practice of drinking powdered brick tea had fallen out of fashion in China. Instead, most tea was hand-fired over a dry wok to stop the process of oxidation and purchased as loose leaves rather than compressed bricks. By the late 16th century, however, tea connoiseurs were steeping the leaves in hot water in teapots and pouring the tea into teacups. Instead, they promoted a carefree, informal approach to tea, inspired by ancient Chinese sages and the scholar-recluse tradition. It thereafter came to be known by the same name. Sencha grew The Old Tea Seller: Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto popularity over time and is now the most popular form of tea in Japan, representing 80 percent of all tea produced each year. At the end of the Meiji era —machine manufacturing of green tea was introduced and began replacing handmade tea. Machines took over the processes of primary drying, tea rolling, secondary drying, final rolling, and steaming. In the 20th century, automation contributed to improved quality and reduced labour. Sensor and computer controls were introduced to machine automation so unskilled workers can produce superior tea without compromising quality. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Main article: Japanese tea ceremony. Japanese food and drink. Tea Camellia sinensis. Junshan Yinzhen Huoshan Huangya. Pu-erh Doncha Lahpet Kombucha. China India Japan. Japan portal Category Outline. Categories : Japanese tea History of tea Cultural history of Japan. Namespaces Article Talk. Views Read Edit View history. Help Learn to edit Community portal Recent changes Upload file. Download as PDF Printable version. Baisao - Wikipedia This is an idiosyncratic listing that like all biographies immediately goes out of date. It includes titles with no Zen pretensions which I find nonetheless useful for my teaching. It includes several dictionaries, some with appendices useful for the serious Zen student who is pursuing language study. You need some Japanese or Chinese to use the basic directories. Entries that begin with Japanese transliteration are in the Japanese or Chinese language. The studies of particular masters have all his cases in one place. These same cases are The Old Tea Seller: Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto throughout the literature and should be consulted to get a clear idea of the correct translations. Try your library and its inter-library loan service for out-of-print titles. Robert Aitken, [ Book List ]. How to do zazen. It includes the autotobiographic essay, "Willy Nilly Zen. Aitken has published several other books. Yunmen is surely one of the greatest of Zen masters. App's comments can be misleading but the book is useful as a reference. Blyth, Haiku. Hokuseido The unfailingly accurate and complete resource with helpful comments. The only collection--with hilarious illustrations. My first book. It introduced me to the Zen perspective and showed me how it can be found in other forms many cultures. It also taught me an effective prose style. Blyth did zazen less than a year, and his comments about Zen are untrustworthy. An excellent translation of the writings of an important Japanese master who had many lay followers. A scholarly study that is useful as a reference. Garma Chang, Chang, Garma C. An early introduction to the Huayan. A useful reference to writings of an important master who had many lay students. An excellent introduction. Cleary, Sayings and Doings of Pai-chang Center. A useful source for everything of Baizhang, an important early master. Cleary, The Book of Serenity Lindisfarne. The Huayan. A colossal resource for Zen masters from the beginning. Cleary, Thomas, and Cleary, J. The Blue Cliff Record Shambhala. Francis H. Cook, Hua-yen Buddhism Pennsylvania State. Another useful introduction. All the images and implements illustrated, described and interpreted. Deja The Old Tea Seller: Life and Zen Poetry in 18th Century Kyoto from a traditional perspective. See above: Francis H. Cook, The Record of Transmitting the Light,p. It includes a fold-out genealogical map which I have mounted by my desk. A cogently selected anthology with comments that are exactly to the point.