A Bowl for a Coin : A Commodity History of Japanese Tea

• Tác giả: William Farris
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-13: 978-0824882624
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 338.173720952 Agriculture
• Thông tin xuất bản: Honolulu : University of Hawai'i Press, 2019
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 237697
• Chủ đề: 1. Asian history

Tóm tắt

A Bowl for a Coin is the first book in any language to describe and analyze the history of all Japanese teas. To understand the triumph of the tea plant in Japan, Wayne Farris begins with its cultivation and goes on to describe the myriad ways in which the herb was processed into a palatable beverage. Along the way, he traces the shift in tea's status from exotic gift item from China to its complete nativization in Edo (1603-1868) art and literature and its eventual place on the table of every Japanese household. Farris maintains that tea farming exemplifies the increasing sophistication of Japanese agriculture after