Stories from a Tearoom Window. Shigernori Chikamatsu

      

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      STORIES FROM A TEAROOM WINDOW

      1 (Frontispiece). The quiet setting of a tea cottage (right), with the waiting bench in the outer part of the tea garden.

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      Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 82-80013

      Previously published under ISBN 0-8048-1385-X

      ISBN 978-1-4629-0256-9

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       Contents

List of Illustrations	7
Translator’s Preface	9
Introduction	13
Foreword to the 1804 Edition	21
Part One: Stories 1-113	23
Part Two: Stories 114-129	163
Afterword to the 1804 Edition	183
Glossary-Index	185

       List of Illustrations

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1 (Frontispiece). View of a tea garden
2. Plan of a four-and-a-half-mat room	26
3. Tea utensils arranged on a stand (daisu)	29
4. Ceramic tea caddy and its bag	30
5. Oillampstand (tankei)	31
6. Kettles: ubaguchi, tetori-gama, Amida-do	35
7. Otogoze kettle	36
8. “The Hot Temper of Hideyoshi”	38-39
9. Flower containers: shakuhachi and Onjoji	42
10. Tearoom, showing the guest entrance (kuguriguchi)	47
11. Interior of a tearoom	49
12. Tea-leaf jar (chatsubo)	53
13. Kettle and brazier on a board (koita)	55
14. Lacquer tea caddies: natsume and oshiroidoki	58
15. Charcoal and charcoal containers	60
16. “Sweeping the Garden”