バイリンガル利休百首 / Rikyu's Hundred Verses in Japanese and English

by Sen no Rikyū, 井口海仙, Gretchen Mittwer (Translator)

英語で茶道を教えたい人
英語で茶道を学ぶ人へ。
5-7-5-7-7から学ぶ、茶の湯の精神と心得。

A must-have for any Tea Practitioner. Essential points, encapsulated in older verses, to guide chadō teachers and students. The verses and commentary by Iguchi Kaisen on them, in Japanese with English translation. English overseen by the Urasenke International Affairs Department, Kyoto.

246 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2020

About the author

Sen no Rikyū was born in 1522 in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. He chose not to be a fishmonger, but rather a man of wisdom. Eventually, he came to develop the philosophy of wabi sabi and a pioneer of the chanoyu (traditional symbolic tea ceremony). Sadly, aristocrats came to see his emphasis on minimalism and his rejection of materialism as mockery, and he was ordered to commit harakiri on April 21, 1591.