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Photo, Print, Drawing Japanese tea ceremony at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Gyomay M. Kubose, Chicago, Illinois

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About this Item

Title

  • Japanese tea ceremony at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Gyomay M. Kubose, Chicago, Illinois

Names

  • Choi, Chungmoo (Collector)
  • Dovydenas, Jonas (Photographer)

Created / Published

  • Chicago, Illinois, June 26, 1977

Headings

  • -  Japanese Americans
  • -  Ethnic costume
  • -  Tea ceremony
  • -  Photographs
  • -  Ethnography
  • -  Illinois -- Chicago

Genre

  • Photographs
  • Ethnography

Notes

  • -  Online digital image numbers may be offset by 1 or 2 digits from the film negative frame numbers.
  • -  Film negative frame numbers, descriptions: 1-6, Japanese tea ceremony at home of Rev. Gyomay M. Kubose and his wife Mine ("Minnie") Somi Kubosi, 4645 N. Racine, Chicago; second guest starts eating sweets (fieldworker's notes based in interviews indicates that eating sweets must precede drinking tea because the sweetness enhances the relatively bitter taste of tea that follows); 7, Chungmoo Choi, fieldworker, looks on; 8-12, second guest goes and gets tea; 13-14, second guest drinks tea; 15, after drinking the tea, the guest admires the art of the tea bowl (chawan) - not a cup, a cup is smaller; 16, returns the bowl; 17, main guest asks to see the tea caddy (natsume), lacquered container with the fine green powder (tea) and the tea scoop (chashaku); 18-21, cleaning the items to present them; 22, presenting the items; 24, hostess leaves room; 25, hostess brings fresh water in mizutsugi; 26, shows mitzutsugi; 27-31, hostess has gone to replenish water being heated; guests closely observing and chashaku (fieldworker's notes based in interviews indicates that this should not be occurring); 32, waiting for return of hostess; 33, hostess returns; "such beautiful art,” she tells about tea caddy and scoop; 34, answering - ''nice combination”; 35, "Thank you," it is always the main guest who speaks; 36, removes items, 37, hostess thanks guests for coming

Medium

  • 35 mm black-and-white film negatives

Call Number/Physical Location

  • Call number: AFC 1981/004: b50878

Source Collection

  • Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004)

Repository

  • American Folklife Center

Digital Id

Online Format

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Credit line: Chicago Ethnic Arts Project collection (AFC 1981/004), American Folklife Center, Library of Congress

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Chicago citation style:

Choi, Chungmoo, and Jonas Dovydenas. Japanese tea ceremony at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Gyomay M. Kubose, Chicago, Illinois. Illinois Chicago, 1977. Chicago, Illinois. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004.b50878/.

APA citation style:

Choi, C. & Dovydenas, J. (1977) Japanese tea ceremony at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Gyomay M. Kubose, Chicago, Illinois. Illinois Chicago, 1977. Chicago, Illinois. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004.b50878/.

MLA citation style:

Choi, Chungmoo, and Jonas Dovydenas. Japanese tea ceremony at the home of Rev. and Mrs. Gyomay M. Kubose, Chicago, Illinois. Chicago, Illinois. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/afc1981004.b50878/>.