Chigusa and the Art of TeaThis innovative book narrates the history of a single objecta tea leaf storage jar created in southern China during the thirteenth or fourteenth centuriesand describes how its role changed after it was imported to Japan and passed from owner to owner there. In Japan, where the jar was in constant use for more than seven hundred years, it was transformed from a humble vessel into a celebrated object used in chanoyu (often translated in English as tea