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"Hearing with the Eyes": Tea and Its Objects in Sixteenth-century Japan

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Franklin D. Murphy Lecture Series

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Spencer Museum of Art

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The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

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Spencer Museum of Art, Kress Foundation Department of Art History

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Andrew Watsky (Tang Center for East Asian Art, Princeton University) examines how 16th-century practitioners of tea ceremonies in Japan assessed and amplified the value of vessels through the formulation of aesthetic criteria, the bestowal of proper names, and an inclination for anthropomorphic embrace. 

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