| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 亞洲研究所碩士在職專班 === 99 === In the 8th century, Japan began its splendid tea culture after receiving the tea seed through The Kentôshi and the Buddhist monk. As time passed, the changes of the aesthetic sense of chazin (the master of the tea ceremony)and wabicha appeared in the tea world.
At first, Cha was known as an imported good and was very popular among the nobles, monks, samurais, as well as the average people. Also, the status of cha also changed from a health drink to the Tōcha and the solemn syoincha) of the Muromachi period. At the end of the Muromachi period, the Wabicha appeared. During this transformative period, the most important three chazins were the Murata Shukō, Takeno Jōō and Sen no Rikyū. Murata Shukō created the style of the Wabicha, Takeno Jōō developed the Wabicha, and Sen no Rikyū completed the transformation of the Wabicha. The main factor of the Wabicha that appeared is the change of the aesthetic sense of chazin. The decorations of the chashitsu(tea house) mainly came from the expensive China wares during the Kamakura period and the Muromachi period, such as the Seiji chawan(celadon-ware). But along with the changes of the aesthetic sense of chazin, the style of the chashitsu change as well as something that concerned tea. For example, the chawan, the cha-kaiseki, and the cha-gashi. In other words, coming back to the origin of the tea. The origin of the tea is just to cut the firewood, to boil the water, to make tea, to worship the Buddha, to serve the people and also to make tea for themselves. This is the Wabicha. The Wabicha simply leads the sophisticated form of the tea to a place of simplicity and solemnity.
Most of the theses emphasized the Schools of Japanese Tea ceremony . The related topics and thoughts of Zen Buddhism of the Wabicha were seldom referred to. Therefore, this thesis will greater emphasize the transformation of the Wabicha and the related topics.
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