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the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE
Ceramic production from 1450 to 1550 was
basically conservative and subject to the serious Harada 1937; Okudaira 1962; lenaga 1973; Hall and
economic, social, and agricultural disturbances Toyoda 1977; Okazaki 1977; Cleveland 1983; New York
1983.
of the time. But the fortunate link between
emerging Tea taste and the continued rural
character of native ceramics reinforced the Acker 1954; Boston 1970; Tanaka 1972; Matsushita
peculiar rough informality of Japanese ceramics 1974; Princeton 1976; Rosenfield, in Hall and Toyoda
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Kanazaw
and laid the foundation for the extraordinary 1977 7;; Kanazawa 1979.a 1979.
developments of the Momoyama period (1573-
1615), when the country was reunified and Covell 1941; Boston 1970; Tanaka 1972; Covell and
prospering under the powerful dictator-shogun Yamada 1974; Matsushita 1974; Princeton 1976; Hall
Hideyoshi. While the ensuing gradual codifica- and Toyoda 1977, esp. chaps. 2,12-17; New York 1981;
tion and complex refinement of the Tea Cere- Los Angeles 1985; Speiser, n.d.
mony produced results far from the original
intentions and practices of Shuko and his disci- Sadler 1962; Lee 1963; Castile 1971; Jenyns 1971; Hay-
ples, the strength and persistence of the Tea ashiya, Nakamura, and Hayashiya 1974; Cort 1979,
Ceremony, with its ancillary art of flower 1981; Mikami 1983; Tokyo 1985.
arrangement, provided the Japanese with an
instrument for aesthetic education unmatched
by any comparable social device in world
history.

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