Japanese Women, Class and the Tea Ceremony

Examines the complex relationship between class and gender dynamics among tea ceremony (chadAi) practitioners in Japan. Focusing on practitioners in a provincial city, Akita, this book surveys the rigid, hierarchical chadAi system at grass roots level.

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