Tea Ceremony scroll 1
by Miki Suizan
- Medium:
- Woodblock print
- Format:
- Oban
- Publisher:
- Watanabe Shozaburo
- Source:
- Japanese Art Open Database
by Miki Suizan
$800–$6,000. Common subjects: $800–$2,000. Key value factors: Miki Suizan's Kyoto maiko prints are the most popular. Condition and subject matter are key value factors.
This woodblock print depicts a scene from the Japanese tea ceremony (chanoyu), rendered in a scroll-like vertical composition that evokes the hanging scrolls traditionally displayed in the tokonoma alcove of a tea room. The first in what may be a series, the print captures the formalized gestures and spatial arrangement of the tea ritual: the careful placement of utensils, the prescribed body positions, and the meditative stillness that chanoyu cultivates. Suizan, based in Kyoto where the major tea schools (Urasenke, Omotesenke, Mushakojisenke) maintain their headquarters, understood tea culture not as an exotic practice but as an integral part of daily social life. His rendering brings the same observational precision to the tea ceremony's choreographed movements that he applies to his landscape and bijin-ga subjects, treating the ritual as a living tradition rather than a museum piece.
Curated cross-cuts that include this print.
Tea Ceremony scroll 1 was created by Miki Suizan (三木翠山).
Tea Ceremony scroll 1 was published by Watanabe Shozaburo.
Tea Ceremony scroll 1 depicts food & drink.
