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NHK – BEGIN Japanology – Peter Barakan - Japanese Tea Ceremony (2009) DVDRIP
English | AVI | XVID 1499 kbps 29.970 fps | 848 x 480 | MP3 128 kbps 48 KHz Stereo | 28mns | 368 MB
Genre: Documentary
BEGIN Japanology invites you into the world of Japanese culture, both traditional and modern, explaining how traditions evolved and the part they still play today in people’s everyday lives. Japanese Tea Ceremony is a fascinating exploration of one of Japan's greatest arts and details the importance of the tea ceremony's history and traditions, its historical tea masters and its physical manifestations. Though it is not native to the country, the drinking of tea was introduced to Japan in the 9th century CE by a Buddhist monk from China, where it had already been known, according to legend, for thousands of years. Tea soon became widely popular in Japan, and began to be cultivated locally. The custom of drinking tea, first for medicinal, and then for purely pleasurable reasons, was already widespread throughout China. In Japan, serving tea is an art and a spiritual discipline. As an art, the tea ceremony is an occasion to appreciate the clean lines of the tea room's design, the feel of the bowl in the hand, the company of friends, and a simple moment of purity. As a discipline, it has roots in the twelfth century and intimate connections to architecture, landscape gardening, ceramics, painting, flower arrangement, and, of course, Zen Buddhism. |
