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日本では古くから、お花見や紅葉狩りなどの季節に野外で行われる茶遊び「野だて」があります。人々が集い、お茶を点て自然を愛で、移ろいゆく季節に思いを馳せ、生きることを楽しみ、共に和歌や俳句を詠んだりもするという行事です。
寺院から発生し、武家社会で洗練された茶道と異なり、野だてには取り立てて作法といったものがありません。戸外での閑雅な行楽という趣きです。そのため「茶道は格式ばってちょっとハードルが高い…」と感じている方でも気軽に参加できます。現代において、お茶道具一式を収める茶箱に骨董の品とモダンな品、和と洋を合わせることができるのも、野だてだから許される組み合わせです。
本展では曲げわっぱやナンタケットバスケットなど意外なお茶箱と、機能的でかわいらしい茶器類の組み合わせ数々のほか、日本ギャラリーを戸外に見立て、桜や秋草を題材にした琳派画や和歌も展示いたします。個性派アーティスト達による茶箱とお道具の斬新な組合せを通じて、作法に縛られない自由な発想と風流な催しを楽しむ、利休前の茶遊び文化をご紹介いたします。
 

講演

オープニングレセプション公演
茶の文化と歴史―千利休以前の茶遊び
東洋大学　文学部教授　原田香織

1. 「季の御読経」
2. 寺院―集団で飲む「茶」
3. 和歌会・連歌会での茶
4. 野外で楽しむ茶「花見の会」から、自然の中の「茶室」へ
5. 風流な憩いの場
6. 飾りとしての茶道具
7. 茶道具の箱・茶箱・茶籠

「初めての抹茶」ワークショップ

抹茶には興味があるけれど、なんとなく難しそう。道具を揃えるのは大変。そんな方にぜひ体験いただきたい、抹茶を気軽に楽しむセミナーです。抹茶の製造工程や味わいの特徴、抹茶を点てる道具や点て方をご紹介し、実際に茶筌を使って抹茶を点てていただきます。抹茶とお菓子の合わせ方や抹茶選びのポイントなども実演を交えながらご紹介いたします。
 
講師：渡辺都　島根県生まれ。フェリス女学院大学卒業。京都「一保堂茶舗」六代目夫人。2015年、新潮社より「お茶の味」を上梓。
一保堂茶舗　https://www.ippodo-tea.co.jp
 
■日時：6月17日（土）1:30 pm〜3:00 pm
■参加費：日本クラブ会員＄10、ゲスト＄15　（別途材料費＄10）
​■定員：20名様
■お問い合わせ・お申し込み
日本クラブ　担当 本多 Tel: 212-581-2223　E-mail：yhonda@nipponclub.org

The zen mind immerses itself in the culture of tea, appreciates the transient beauty of the four seasons, and delights in life in its bare factuality.
 
Japan meets the Western counties through traditional craft. We introduce the culture of tea – an entertainment of creativity and elegance – by means of tea boxes and tea utensils made by unique artists.
 
Since the old days, people have enjoyed outdoor tea events to admire seasonal delights, such as cherry-blossom viewing during the spring and the changing leaves during the fall. They are events in which people gather, make tea, enjoy and pay respect to nature, contemplate　the transience of seasons, and share with each other poetry such as waka and haiku. There　is no strict mannerism in outdoor tea.
 
While kyokusui no utage, an elegant form of leisure entertainment enjoyed by nobles in Heian Period (704-1185), tea culture began in the temple and became refined in the hands of the warrior class. An early example is Doyo Sasaki, a ‘basara’ warrior of the Northern and Southern Courts Period, who threw an extravagant event involving tea ceremony, incense, flower arrangement, and renga collaborative poetry during the flower viewing in Oharano, Kyoto. During the Ashikaga shogunate, also known as the Muromachi period (1336-1573), the tea culture settled as an elegant activity.
 
Before Sen no Rikyu, tea culture was graceful and gorgeous. There was also a tocha contest (later banned). In addition, there was an element of showy elegance within the wabi-sabi of tea bowls (e.g. a stylish blackness). Therefore, the exhibition will express wabi-sabi that encompasses glamor.
 
There are no strict rules for nodate, like Western picnic, which makes it welcoming to those who find tea ceremony intimidating. Also, precisely by virtue of this openness, we can combine traditional and modern, or Japanese and western items in a single tea box. We can thus enjoy unique combinations in nodate tea boxes.
 
In this exhibition, we introduce nodate tea boxes and tea utensils that are small and yet both functional and embody the Japanese aesthetics of kawaii. The exhibition room at Nippon Club will be decorated to resemble the outdoors, and we will display paintings, waka poems and tea boxes with the themes of cherry blossom and autumn flowers. Through the unique combinations of tea boxes put together by various artists, we introducethe nodate, tea culture of Japan that enjoys free and elegant tea time, which is a prevalent style before Sen no Rikyu.
 
Please don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience “Art of Japanese Tea Picnic”.
 
During the exhibition, we will hold a workshop.
 

How to make Matcha!
 
Miyako Watanabe of Ippodo Tea Co. (started in 1717) will speak about the joy and pleasure of tea and also show how to make Matcha. Please enjoy green tea whisked by yourself with traditional Japanese sweets!
 
Time: 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm on Saturday, June 17, 2017
Fee: $ 10 (Nippon Club members), $15 (Guests)  (Material Fee $ 10)
The number of seats is limited.
 
For registration or inquiry, please contact Ms. Honda at yhonda@nipponclub.org.