Tea History 

Bodart, Beatrice M. "Tea and Counsel. The Political Role of Sen Rikyū." Monumenta Nipponica 32, no. 1 (1977): 49–74.

Chanoyu no rekishi: Sōtan, Sōwa, Enshū to sono jidai [Tea History: Sōtan, Sōwa, Enshū, and Their Times]. Kyoto: Chadō Shiryōkan, 1983

Cooper, Michael. "The Early Europeans and Tea." In Tea in Japan, edited by Paul Varley and Isao Kumakura, 101–134.  Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1989. 

Corbett, Rebecca. "Tea Practice, Gender, Japanese-ness in the Meiji Period." Produced by The University of British Columbia. Meiji at 150 Podcast. May 4, 2018. Podcast, MP3 Audio, 35:47. https://meijiat150.podbean.com/e/episode-27-dr-rebecca-corbett-usc/      

Cort, Louise Allison. "The Grand Kitano Tea Gathering," Chanoyu Quarterly 31 (1982): 15–44.

Daitokuji to chado: sono rekishi to Daitokuji zō no sho [Daitokuji Temple and the Way of Tea: History and the Writings of Daitokuji Clerics]. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2000.

Demura-Devore, Paul E.  "The Political Institutionalization of Tea Specialists in Seventeenth-Century Tokugawa Japan: The Case of Sen Sōtan and Sons." Ph.D. dissertation. Manoa: University of Hawai'i at Manoa, 2005.

Farris, William Wayne. A Bowl for a Coin: A Commodity History of Japanese Tea. University of Hawai'i Press, 2019. 

Gerhart, Karen. The Eyes of Power: Art and Early Tokugawa Authority. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1999.

Graham, Patricia J. Tea of the Sages: The Art of Sencha.  Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998.

Guth, Christine M.E. Art, Tea, and Industry: Masuda Takashi and the Mitsui Circle. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1933. 

Itō, Teiji. “Kobori Enshū: Architectural Genius and Chanoyu Master." Chanoyu Quarterly 44 (1985): 7–37.

Lillehoj, Elizabeth. "The Early Kanamori Family and Tea." Chanoyu Quarterly 77 (1994): 33–55.

Kumakura, Isao, ed. Ii Naosuke no chanoyu. [The Tea of Ii Naosuke]. Tokyo: Kokusho, 2007. 

Kumakura, Isao. Japanese Tea Culture: The Heart and Form of Chanoyu. Translated by Martha Jane McClintock. Tokyo: Shuppan Bunka Sangyō Shinkō Zaidan [Japan Publishing Industry Foundation for Culture], 2023. 

Kuwata, Tadachika, ed. Cha ni ikita hito [People Who Lived for Tea]. Zusetsu chadō taikei, Seven volumes. Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1965. 

Mair, Victor H., and Erling Hoh. The True History of Tea. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2009.

Murai, Yasuhiko. Rikyū shichitetsu Sōtan shitenno [Rikyū’s Seven Sages and Sōtan’s Four Emperors]. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 1969.

———. "Furuta Oribe." Chanoyu Quarterly no. 42 (1985): 24–48.

———.  "The Development of Chanoyu: Before Rikyu." In Tea in Japan: Essays on the History of Chanoyu, edited by Paul Varley and Isao Kumakura, 3–32. University of Hawai'i Press, 1989.  

Nakano-Holmes, Julia R. "Furuta Oribe: Iconoclastic Guardian of Chanoyu Tradition."  Ph.D. dissertation, University of Hawaii at Manoa, 1995. 

Pitelka, Morgan. Handmade Culture: Raku Potters, Patrons, and Tea Practitioners in Japan. University of Hawai'i Press, 2005.

Pitelka, Morgan, ed. Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History, and Practice. London: Routledge Curzon, 2003. 

Pitelka, Morgan. "Sen Kōshin Sōsa: Writing Tea History." In Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History and Practice, edited by Morgan Pitelka, 86–109. London: Routledge Curzon, 2003. 

———. "Tea Taste: Patronage and Collaboration among Tea Masters and Potters in Early Modern Japan." Early Modern Japan: An Interdisciplinary Journal 12, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 2004): 26–38. 

Plutschow, Herbert E. The Grand Tea Master: A Biography of Hounsai Sōshitsu Sen XV. Trumbull: Weatherhill Inc., 2001. 

———. Rediscovering Rikyu and the Beginnings of the Japanese Tea Ceremony. Folkestone, Kent: Global Oriental, 2003.

———. Chadō to tenka tōitsu: Nippon no seiji bunka to chanoyu [The Japanese Tea Ceremony as a Political Ritual]. Translated by Ayako Shinoda. Tokyo: Nihon Keizai Shinbun Shuppansha, 2010.

Sen, Sōshitsu. The Japanese Way of Tea: From Its Origins in China to Sen Rikyu. Translated by V. Dixon Morris. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1998. 

Slusser, Dale. "The Transformation of Tea Practice in Sixteenth-Century Japan." In Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History, and Practice, edited by Morgan Pitelka, 39–60. London: Routledge Curzon, 2003.

Tanihata, Akio, ed. Yoku wakaru chadō no rekishi [Tea History, Easily Understood].  Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2007.

Tanihata, Akio. "Men of Tea: An Evaluation of Yamanoue Sōji, Part II." Chanoyu Quarterly no. 27 (1981): 51–58. 

———. Chanoyu no bunkashi: kinsei no chajintachi [The Cultural History of Chanoyu: Early Modern Teamen]. Tokyo: Kōbunkan, 1999.

Tanimura, Reiko. Ii Naosuke: Shuyo to shite no chanoyu. [Ii Naosuke: Chanoyu and Cultivation].  Tokyo: Sōbunsha, 2001.

———. "Tea of the Warrior in the Late Tokugawa." In Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History, and Practice, edited by Morgan Pitelka, 137–150. London: Routledge Curzon, 2003.

Tokugawa Art Museum, ed. Daimyō no chanoyu [Daimyo Tea Ceremony]. Nagoya: Tokugawa Bijutsukan, 2000.

Varley, Paul and George Elison. "The Culture of Tea: From Its Origins to Sen no Rikyū." In Warlords, Artists and Commoners: Japan in the Sixteenth Century, edited by George Elison and Bardwell L. Smith, 187–222. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1981.

Varley, Paul, and Isao Kumakura, eds. Tea in Japan: Essays on the History of Chanoyu. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1989.

Watsky, Andrew. "Commerce, Politics, and Tea: The Career of Imai Sōkyū (1520-1593)." In  Japanese Tea Culture: Art, History and Practice, edited by Morgan Pitelka, 18–38. London: Routledge Curzon, 2003.

Yabe, Sei'ichirō. Nihon no chanoyu bunkashi no shinkenkyū [New Research in the Cultural History of Japanese Chanoyu]. Tokyo: Yuzankaku, 2005.

Yabe, Yoshiaki. Furuta Oribe: Momoyama bunka o enshū suru [Furuta Oribe: Navigating Momoyama Culture]. Tokyo: Kadokawa Shoten, 1999.

Women in Tea

Chiba, Kaeko. Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony: The Voices of Tea Practitioners in Northern Japan. Hoboken: Taylor & Francis, 2010.

Corbett, Rebecca. "Learning to be Graceful: Tea in Early Modern Guides for Women’s Edification." Japanese Studies 29, no. 1 (2009):  81–91.

———. Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan, Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 2018.

Kato, Etsuko. The Tea Ceremony and Women’s Empowerment in Modern Japan: Bodies Re-Presenting the Past. London: Routledge Curzon, 2004. 

Kumakura, Isao, ed. Ōguchi Shōō: josei chanoyu no susume [Ōguchi Shōō: The Advancement of Women’s Tea]. Kyoto: Miyaobi Shuppansha, 2013. 

Mori, Barbara Lynn Rowland. "The Tea Ceremony: A Transformed Japanese Ritual." Gender and Society 5, no. 1 (March 1, 1991): 86–97.

Historical Tea Writings
(primary sources in Japanese)

Chadō shiso densho [Transmitted Writings of the Four Tea Masters]. Chanoyu koten sōsho, volume 1, edited by Ginshoan Matsuyama and Isao Kumakura. Kyoto: Shinbunkaku, 1974.

Chafu [Genealogy of Tea]. Compiled 1661–1673. Edited by Tani Akira and Yagasaki Zentaro. Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 2010.

Chafu [Genealogy of Tea]. Compiled 1661–1673. Two volumes. Edited by Abō Hiroshi and Fukuda Toshiaki et al. Tokyo: Daitō Bunka Daigaku Tōyō Kenkyūsho, 2010.

Chajin no meisho-kan [Famous Letters of Tea Persons]. Edited by Tadachika Kuwata. Tokyo: Tokyodō Shuppan, 1970. 

Chikamatsu, Shigenori. Chaso kanwa [Stories from a Tearoom Window]. 1804. Edited by Toshiko Mori. Translated by Kozaburo Mori. Rutland, VT: Charles E. Tuttle, 1982.

———."Excerpts from the Chanoyu kōjidan." 1804. Translated by Alfred Birnbaum. Chanoyu Quarterly 29 (1981): 50–53.

Fujimura, Yōken. "Chawa shigetsushū" [Accounts of Tea: Finger Pointing at the Moon Collection]. Transcribed in 1701. In Chadō koten zenshū, volume 10, edited by Shōhitsu Sen, 197–252. Kyoto: Tankō Shinsha, 1967.

"Furu-Ori kō densho" [Transmissions of Lord Furuta Oribe]. Undated. Matsuyama Yonetaro and Kumakura Isao, eds. In Chado shiso densho [Record of the Transmissions of the Four Masters], edited by Yonetaro Matsuyama and Isao Kumakura, 71–137. Kyoto: Shibunkaku: 1974.

Furuta Oribe chasho [The Tea Writings of Furuta Oribe]. Volume 1. Edited by Ichino Chizuko. Kyoto: Shibunkaku, 1976. 

Furuta Oribe chasho. [The Tea Writings of Furuta Oribe]. Volume 2. Edited by Ichino Chizuko. Kyoto: Shibunkaku Shuppan, 1984. 

Furuta Oribe no shojō. [The Correspondence of Furuta Oribe]. Edited by Ito Toshiko, ed.  Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1985.

Hōrin, Jōshō. Kakumeiki [The Dividing Plant Record]. Compiled 1635–1668]. Volume 1. Edited by Toshihide Akamatsu. Kyoto: Shibunsha, 1958.

Hosokawa, Sansai (Tadaoki). Sukikikigaki [Queries and Replies for the Tea Aficionado].Tokyo: Mainichi Shinbunsha, 1978. 

Ii, Naosuke. "Chadō no kabegaki" [Graffito on Tea]. 1858. In Shiryō Ii Naosuke no chanoyu, volume 1, edited by Isao Kumakura, 117. Hikone: Hikone-jo Hakubutsukan, 2002. [Hikone-han Ii-ke Monjō, Document No. 28192]

———. Chadō to seidō. [Tea and Governance]. 1846. In Shiryō Ii Naosuke no chanoyu, volume 1, edited by Isao Kumakura, 114–116. Hikone: Hikone-jo Hakubutsukan, 2002.

———. Chanoyu ichieshū [Collection for a Tea Gathering]. 1857. In Shiryō Ii Naosuke no chanoyu, volume 1, edited by Isao Kumakura, 114–116. Hikone: Hikone-jo Hakubutsukan, 2002.

———. Nyūmonki. [Primer]. 1845. In Shiryō Ii Naosuke no chanoyu, volume 1, edited by Isao Kumakura, 125–126. Hikone: Hikone-jo Hakubutsukan, 2002.

———. Sōen sensei chadō kikigaki zen. [A Complete Record of Questions and Answers with Teacher Sōen]. 1848–1857. In Shiryō Ii Naosuke no chanoyu, volume 2, edited by Isao Kumakura, 53–76. Hikone: Hikone-jo Hakubutsukan, 2007.

———. Umoreginoya no ki [Record of the House of the Buried Wood]. 1835. Excerpts from "Umoregiya." https://web.archive.org/web/20150222233650/http://www.umoreya.com/umoreginoya/umoreginoya.htm. 

———. "Junkai mizuya-cho" [Ordered Ledger of the Anteroom]. 1857–1858. In Shiryō Ii Naosuke no chanoyu, volume 2, edited by Isao Kumakura, 191–199. Hikone: Hikone-jo Hakubutsukan, 2007. 

Ikeda, Mitsumasa. "Rekkō kanwa" [Discussions on Various Lords]. Seventeenth century. In Shiseki shūran, edited by Heijō Kondō. Tokyo: Kondō Shuppanbu, 1924. 

Iori, Ichio. "Hosokawa chanoyu no sho" [The Hosokawa Book of Tea]. 1668. In Chadō koten zenshū, volume 10, edited by Sōshitsu Sen, 19–126. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 1967.

Kanamori, Sōwa. "Kanamori Sōwa jihitsu shojō." In Chajin no meisho-kan [Famous Letters of Tea Persons], edited by Tadachika Kuwata, 190–194. Tokyo: Tokyodō Shuppan, 1970.

———. Kanamori Sōwa no chasho [Tea Writings of Kanamori Sōwa]. Edited by Akira Tani. Kyoto: Shinbunkaku, 1997.

Katagiri, Sekishū. "Sekishū sanbyaku kajyō" [Three Hundred Precepts of Sekishū]. In Sekishū-ryū: bunken shiryō, volume 5, 8–91. Kyoto: Mitsumura Suiko Shoin, 1985.

———. "Wabi no fumi" [A Letter on Wabi]. 1661. In Shinshū chadō zenshū, edited by Tadachika Kuwata, volume 8, 17. Tokyo: Shunshūsha, 1956. 

Kobori, Enshū. Kobori Enshū no shojō [The Correspondence of Kobori Enshū]. Volume 1. Edited by Sōkei Kobori. Tokyo: Tokyodō Shuppan, 2002. 

———. Kobori Enshū no shojō [The Correspondence of Kobori Enshū]. Volume 2. Edited by Sōkei Kobori. Tokyo: Tokyodō Shuppan, 2006. 

———. "Chaire shidai" [A Ranking of Tea Caddies]. c. 1628. In Kobori Enshū: Bi no deai-ten. Daimyō chajin Enshū 400 nen. [Kobori Enshū: An Encounter with Beauty, Four Hundred Years of the Daimyo Tea Master Enshū], edited by Asahi Newspaper Cultural Division, 169–171. Tokyo: Asahi Shinbunsha, 2007.

———."Kakisute-bumi" [Letter Written to Be Discarded]. In Wind in the Pines: Classic Writings of the Way of Tea as a Buddhist Path, translated by Dennis Hirota, 289. Kyoto:  Asian Humanities Press, 1995.

Kobori, Masatsune et al. "Enshū okura motochō" [Ledger of the Enshū Storehouse]. In Chadō koten zenshū, volume 12, edited by Sōshitsu Sen, 270–329. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 1971.

Konoe, Iehiro. Kaiki [Record of Gatherings]. In Chadō koten zenshū, volume 5, edited by Sōshitsu Sen. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 1967.

Kubo, Chōandō. "Chōandōki" [The Record of Chōandō]. 1640. In Chōandōki/Chadō shiso densho [The Record of Chōandō and Chado shiso densho], edited by Kuzō Asao, 14–72. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 2010.

Matsudaira, Fumai. "Chaji oboegaki" [Reflections on Tea Gatherings]. 1787. In Matsudaira Fumai, edited by Seichū Naitō and Shigenori Shimada, 196–208. Matsue: Matsue Imai Shoten, 1998.

———. "Chanoyu kokoroe" [Mastery of the Way of Tea]. Undated. In Matsudaira Fumai, edited by Seichū Naitō and Shigenori Shimada, 209–216. Matsue: Matsue Imai Shoten, 1998.

———. "Chaso" [Tea Fundamentals]. In Matsudaira Fumai, edited by Seichū Naitō, and Shigenori Shimada, 217–224. Matsue: Matsue Imai Shoten, 1998.

———. Kokon meibutsu ruijū [Collection of Ancient and Modern Famous Utensils]. 1791. National Diet Library Digital Collection. March 31, 2011.  http://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/2563677. 

———. "Mudagoto" [Useless Words]. 1770. In Cha-zen Fumai-kō. [Tea and Zen: Lord Fumai], edited by Baien Takahashi, 171–178. Tokyo: Hōunsha, 1944. 

———. "Mudagoto" [Useless Words]. 1770. In Matsudaira Fumai, edited by Seichū Naitō and Shigenori Shimada, 159–195. Matsue: Matsue Imai Shoten, 1998.

———."Unshū meibutsu" [Record of Famous Items of Izumo]. 1812–1818. In Chadō koten zenshū, volume 12, edited by Sōshitsu Sen, 371–411. Kyoto: Tankō Shinsha 1967. 

Matsuya, Hisashige. Chadō shiso densho [Record of the Transmissions of the Four Masters of Tea]. 1652. Edited by Yonetaro Matsuyama and Isao Kumakura. Kyoto: Shibunkaku, 1974.

———. "Matsuya kaiki" [Matsuya Record of Tea Gatherings]. Compiled 1533–1650. In Chadō koten zenshū, volume 9, edited by Sōshitsu Sen, 231–453. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 1967.

Matsuya, Hisayoshi. "Matsuya kaiki" [Matsuya Record of Tea Gatherings]. Compiled 1533–1650. In Chadō kōten zenshū, volume 9, edited by Sōshitsu Sen, 157–230. Kyoto: Tankōsha, 1967.

Matsuya, Hisayoshi, et al. "Matsuya Meibutsushū." [Matsuya Family Compendium of Famous Objects]. In Chadō koten zenshū, volume 12, edited by Sōshitsu Sen, 1–70. Kyoto: Tankosha, 1967.

Matsudaira, Sadanobu. "Daimyō katagi" [Portrait of a Daimyo]. 1784. Monumenta Nipponica 38, no. 1 (Spring 1983): 20–48.

Matsudaira, Sadanobu. "Kokoro no sōshi" [Intention]. 1808. National Diet Library Digital Collection. March 31, 2011. http://dl.ndl.go.jp/info:ndljp/pid/2540865. 

Okamoto, Zuian. Okamoto Sōshū kaiki [Okamoto Sōshū Record of Gatherings]. 1775–1808. In Fumai-kō ten [Lord Fumai Exhibition], edited by Tanabe Art Museum, 88–98. Matsue: Tanabe Art Museum, 2001. 

Rikyū no tegami [The Letters of Rikyū]. Edited by Shigemi Komatsu. Tokyo: Shōgakkan, 1985. 

Sen, Sōtan. Sōtan no tegami [The Letters of Sōtan]. Edited by Fusa Kiyose and Yōko Sogabe. Kyoto: Kawara Shoten, 1997.

Shinshōsai, Shunkei. Bunrui sōjinboku [A Catalog for Tea Practitioners]. 1564/published 1626. In Chadō koten zenshū, volume 3, edited by Sōshitsu Sen, 143–352. Kyoto: Tankō Shinsha, 1967. 

Shiryō Ii Naosuke no chanoyu,  jō [Historical Materials on Ii Naosuke’s Tea, Vol. 1]. Edited by Isao Kumakura. Hikone: Hikone Hakubutsukan, 2002. 

Shiryō Ii Naosuke no chanoyu,  ge. [Historical Materials on Ii Naosuke’s Tea, Vol. 2]. Edited by Isao Kumakura, ed. Hikone: Hikone Hakubutsukan, 2007. 

Shiryō ni yoru chanoyu no rekishi [Tea History According to the Sources]. Volume. 2.  Edited by Isao Kumakura. Tokyo: Shufu no Tomosha, 1994. 

Sōtan no tegami [The Letters of Sōtan]. Edited by Fusa Kiyose and Yōko Sogabe Kyoto: Kawara Shoten, 1997.  

Sugiki, Fusai. "Fukō chawa." In Chadō, volume 11, 711–747. Tokyo: Sōgensha, 1936.

Suzuki, Masamichi. Chajin keifu [A Genealogy of Tea Persons]. 1832. Publisher unknown. NCID: BA73314772.

Tachibana, Jitsuzan. "Nanpōroku" [The Record of Nanpō]. In Gendai goyaku Nanpōroku [A Contemporary Translation of the Nanpōroku], edited by Isao Kumakura. Tokyo: Chūō Kōron Shinsha, 2009.

———. "Nanpōroku" [The Record of Nanpō]. In Chadō koten zenshū, volume 4, edited by Sōshitsu Sen, 1–334. Kyoto: Tankō Shinsha, 1967.

Yabunouchi, Chikushin. Genryū chawa [Discussions on the Origins of Tea]. 1745. In Chadō koten zenshū, volume 3, edited by Sōshitsu Sen, 396–497. Kyoto: Tankō Shinsha, 1967.

Yamada Sohen zenshū  [The Collected Words of Yamada Sōhen]. Volume 1. Edited by Isao Kumakura. Kamakura: Shumeidō, 1959.

Yamanoue, Sōji. Yamanoue Sōjiki [The Record of Yamanoue Sōji]. Compiled 1588–1590. In Chadō kōten zenshū, volume 6, edited by Sōshitsu Sen, 51–129. Kyoto: Tankō Shinsha, 1967.