【Book description】
Understanding temae through a comparison of forty-four schools
More than four hundred years have passed since Sen Rikyū brought chanoyu to maturity. During this time, many tea masters appeared, and several schools founded by them have been handed down to the present day. Because practitioners of chanoyu usually belong to a single school, they are often surprised when they encounter the distinctive teachings and procedures of other traditions. This book examines the temae procedures of forty-four schools of chanoyu. By objectively evaluating the differences in their procedures and clarifying the relationships among the schools, it explores how temae has changed from the time of Sen Rikyū to the present.

44流派を比較して見えてくる点前の姿
千利休が茶の湯を大成してから、400年以上の時間が経過している。この間にさまざまな茶匠があらわれ、かれらを流祖とする流派のいくつかが現在まで伝えられている。茶の湯を学ぶ人は一般に一つの流派に属するため、他の流派の独自の教えにふれると、そのちがいに驚かされることもすくなくない。本書では大小さまざまな44流派の点前を調査し、点前のちがいを客観的に評価することにより、流派相互の関係を明らかにし、千利休から現在にいたる点前の変化を考察する。


【Contents】
Introduction Framing research that compares the tea-serving procedures of chanoyu
Chapter 1 Surveyed tea schools and temae analysis methods
Chapter 2 Analyzing tea schools with multivariate analysis
Chapter 3 Cultural phylogenetic analysis
Chapter 4 Examination of each temae line item surveyed
Chapter 5 Discourse on the diversity of temae among tea schools
Conclusion Temae as change

Reference Materials
Appendix 1 Genealogy of 44 tea schools
Appendix 2 Investigation methods for the temae of 44 schools
Appendix 3 Table 1-1 categorizations: justifications and exceptions
Appendix 4 Bibliography


【Author】
Hirota Yoshitaka
Researcher specializing in chanoyu, focusing on the practice of temae and the iemoto system. He was born in Hyōgo Prefecture in 1959. In 2012, he completed the doctoral program at the Graduate School of Intercultural Studies, Kobe University, and received his Ph.D. He is currently a part-time lecturer at Kyoto University of the Arts.


【Translator】
Tim Cross
Fukuoka University professor who teaches an undergraduate translation course.