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Teiran Tea Utensil Basket

Hayakawa Shōkosai ILinkedCulture matchlcp-8036699f2ce7

Date: second half 19th century
Medium: Bamboo, rattan, lacquer, rope and silk lining
Department: Asian Art
Institution: Minneapolis Institute of Art
Object ID: 118487

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Hayakawa Shōkosai I was the leading bamboo artist of the late 1800s. He made this basket to carry the various utensils used for sencha tea service. In contrast to the older Japanese tea ceremony, which uses powdered green tea, the sencha tea ceremony introduced from China in the Edo period (1603–1868) features green tea leaves soaked—or steeped—in hot water. This practice and its association with Chinese culture was especially popular among Japanese scholarly elites of the 1700s and 1800s, who revered artworks, practices, and ideas sourced from Chinese culture. Asia

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Credit line: The John R. Van Derlip Fund; purchase from the collection of Elizabeth and Willard Clark

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18th-Century European Tea Ceramics
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