Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation
13/14 Cornwall Terrace, Outer Circle (entrance facing Regent’s Park), London NW1 4QP
21 July–22 August 2017 (private view 20 July)
From the cultured court of Shogun Ashikaga Yoshima in the eastern hills of Higashiyama above Kyoto, in 15th century Japan, sprung the unique fusion of art and everyday life, beauty in simplicity, embodied in the tea ceremony.
Centuries later novelist Henry James’ famous evocation of the ‘eternity of pleasure’ provided by ‘the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea’ by the Thames, in ‘The Portrait of a Lady’, showed how strongly the concept of taking tea as a ceremony had seeped out from Zen philosophical roots in the Kyoto hills deep into the special brew of Britain’s island culture.
The exhibition is curated by Spin180 and it has been made possible with the kind assistance of Kyoto Prefectural Government and Daitokuji-Daiji-in Temple.
You can read the press release for the exhibition HERE (PDF), while booking for the private view is HERE.
