Cultivating femininity women and tea culture in Edo and Meiji Japan Corbett, Rebecca creator author. JSTOR (Organization) text bibliography History. Electronic books. hiu 2018 monographic eng remote 1 online resource (x, 189 pages) : illustrations (some color) The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical role in tea culture ( chanoyu ). In Cultivating Femininity, Rebecca Corbett writes women back into this history and shows how tea practice for women was understood, articulated, and promoted in the Edo (1603-1868) and Meiji (1868-1912) periods. Viewing chanoyu from the lens of feminist and gender theory, she sheds new light on tea's undeniable influence on the formation of modern understandings of femininity in Japan. Cultivating Femininity offers a new perspective on the prevalence of tea practice among women in modern Japan. It presents a fresh, much-needed approach, one that will be appreciated by students and scholars of Japanese history, gender, and culture, as well as by tea practitioners. Women and tea culture in early modern Japan -- A handbook for elite women's tea in the eighteenth century -- A handbook for women's tea in the nineteenth century -- Guides for cultivating femininity -- Guides for modern life -- Epilogue : beyond the Meiji period. Rebecca Corbett. Includes bibliographical references and index. a-ja--- Japanese tea ceremony History 18th century Japanese tea ceremony History 19th century Women Japan Social conditions Women Japan Economic conditions HISTORY / Asia / Japan Japanese tea ceremony Women Economic conditions Women Social conditions Japan 1700-1899 fast History Chanoyu Japanese tea culture Modernity Practice GT2910 .C67 2018 394.1/50952 Cultivating femininity Corbett, Rebecca, (DLC) 2017025008 (OCoLC)990057246 9780824878405 082487840X 9780824878399 0824878396 9780824872076 082487207X 22573/ctv42hkrt JSTOR http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login?url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv3zp062 OAPEN 180421 20260612160848.6 in00004013907 eng