International tea practitioners, scholars, curators, and art dealers discuss the content and aesthetics of Japanese tea culture.

For a full schedule of symposium events,
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Guest speakers include:

  • Prof. Fujimori Terunobu, Architect, University of Tokyo
  • Dr. Christine Guth, Victoria and Albert Museum
  • Prof. Samuel Morse, Amherst College
  • Mr. Nagoya Akira, the Gotoh Museum
  • Dr. Nishida Hiroko, Nezu Institute of Fine Arts
  • Mr. Sen So-oku, tea master
  • Mr. Isao Setsu, Setsu Gatodo Co.
  • Mr. Tsujimura Shiro, ceramic artist

For information related to travel and accommodations CLICK HERE.

Some papers will be presented in Japanese; English translation will be provided.

Exhibition and publication made possible by the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation; Ann and Gilbert H. Kinney, B.A. 1953, M.A. 1954; the Japan Foundation Endowment of the Council on East Asian Studies; the Mary Livingston Griggs and Mary Griggs Burke Foundation; and an endowment created with a challenge grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.


The symposium is supported by Yale University’s Council on East Asian Studies, with the cooperation of the Todai-Yale Initiative, and the Japan Foundation, New York.

Tea services made possible by Mr. Sojitsu Kobori, the Thirteenth Grand Master, the Enshu School of Tea; Tomi Ise, Director of Ise Cultural Foundation, New York and Koichi Yanagi Oriental Fine Arts. Western teas provided by Harney & Sons Fine Teas.

Image: Tea Bowl, Korean, Yi (Joseon) dynasty, 15th–16th century. Buncheong ware; stoneware with slip and iron-brown overglaze decoration. Collection of Peggy and Richard M. Danziger, LL.B. 1963
The Journey of Chanoyu
An International Symposium on the Tea Culture of Japan,
Past and Present

Friday, April 17, 9:00 AM– 5:00 PM

Free and open to the public.
Registration is required.

Registration is now closed.
For more information, please contact
Ami Potter; ami.potter@yale.edu

For programming information related to this exhibition CLICK HERE.
For information in Japanese CLICK HERE.

For queries, please call 203.432.7379.

For information on “Friends at a Brushwood Gate: A Symposium on Japanese Art in Honor of Professor Yoshiaki Shimizu” at the Tang Center for East Asian Art CLICK HERE.

Don't miss the exciting Tea demonstrations on Saturday!

Koicha Service
Saturday, April 18, 2009; 2:00–2:45 PM
A koicha (thick tea) service is presented by Sen So-oku, the fifteenth-generation
heir to the Mushanokoji Senke tea lineage.

Matcha Services
Saturday, April 18, 2009; 3:00–4:30 PM
Two matcha (thin tea) services are presented in the modern fashion, or Ryureishiki. Sen So-oku performs the style of the Mushanokoji Senke school, using a modern tea set of his own design, called Ten'yujoku (Table for Playing in the Sky). Ise Tomi presents the style of the Ura Senke school, using a modern set called Misonodana (Tea Set for Royal Garden).