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Christy Bartlett is the Founding Direct or of the James-Henry Holland is Associate Professor Charly Iten studied East Asian art history and
Urasenke Foundation San Francisco offi ce. From 1972 of Japanese Language and Culture at Hobart and Japanese language at the University of Zurich,
to 1981, she pract iced chanoyu, the Way of Tea, under William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York. Switzerland. In 2004 he presented his doct oral thesis
Sen Soshitsu XV, fi ft eenth generation Head Master of Publications include “A Public Tea Gathering: in which he focused on the tea bowls originating from
the Urasenke Tradition of Chanoyu. In 1981, she was Theater and Ritual in the Japanese Tea Ceremony,” the small group of Japanese kilns that were favored by
asked to establish the fi rst Urasenke offi ce on the west Journal of Ritual Studies 14:1 (2000), and “Tea Records: Sen no Rikyu¯ and Furuta Oribe. Aft er being a scientifi c
coast of the United States in San Francisco. In 2002, Kaiki and Oboegaki in Contemporary Japanese assistant for three years he is now working as an
Dr. Sen recognized her commitment to education Tea Pract ice,” in Morgan Pitelka (ed.): Japanese Tea expert and dealer in East Asian art. His main interests
and study with one of its highest degrees, the seikyoju. Culture: Art, History and Pract ice (Routledge Curzon, include Japanese ceramics, painting and calligraphy.
Ms. Bartlett has continued advanced studies in 2003). In addition to tea, his research interests
the Graduate Division of East Asian Languages at include gift exchange and material culture in Japan.
UC Berkeley, in addition to her work as Founding
Direct or, with a focus on research in sixteenth century
tea diaries and transmissions and the pract ice of
chanoyu as an art form.