Chanoyu III: The Way of Tea in Japanese history and culture 3600-JA-CHDHJHIII-OW

The students will be able to present, using the vocabulary of this field, various detailed issues of the Japanese Way of Tea, its history, aesthetics and philosophy. They will also experience tea in its traditional environment practicing on tatami mats, which enables them to become more familiar with Japanese traditional space. They can act according to the guests' etiquette during a tea gathering, it is easier for them to enter Japanese culture environments and they do so with deeper awareness. The necessity to learn from their older more experienced colleagues develops the ability of cooperation and communication. Class calls for particular concentration and physical and mental effort, therefore it hardens the spirit. The nature of the Way of Tea also awakens openness towards the other, empathy, mutual understanding and the notion of mutual ties.

Knowledge:
K_W06, K_W10
Skills:
K_U06, K_U17
Social competences:
K_K05

Grade criteria:
1. Final written test
2. Practical assessment (in a form of a tea gathering)
3. Personal essey in Japanese (in exceptional cases in English)
4. Continuous assessment (being prepared and active during classes)
5. Attendance control (permitted two self-authorised absences per semester)

Possible pre-exam session assesment.

NA

Dennis Hirota, Wind in the Pines, Asian Humanities Press, Fremont 1995.
Urasenke Chadō Textbook, Sen Genshitsu & Sen Sōshitsu (red.), Tankōsha, Kyoto 2011.
A Chanoyu Vocabulary. Practical Terms for the Way of Tea, Tankosha, Kyoto 2007.
Sen Sōshitsu XV, The Japanese Way of Tea. From Its Origins in China to Sen Rikyū, University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 1997.

Selected texts from: The Way of Tea Literature Classics in 12 volumes, Tankōsha, Kyōto 1956.

And other source materials selected by the teacher for the given semester.