Chashitsu okoshi-ezu [Pop-up Japanese Tea-Houses] TANSAI, Nobutatsu. Chashitsu okoshi-ezu. [Pop-up Japanese Tea-Houses]. A set…
Chashitsu okoshi-ezu [Pop-up Japanese Tea-Houses]
TANSAI, Nobutatsu. Chashitsu okoshi-ezu. [Pop-up Japanese Tea-Houses]. A set of 65 architectural models of chashitsu, Japanese tea-houses, yoritsuki and koshikake (waiting huts and roofed arbors), plus other “out-buildings” associated with the tea ceremony. Each model on washi or kozo construction paper, with ample information supplying design details, dimensions, textures and materials used, written in black ink in the precise, artistic hand of Tansai Nobutatsu. Each model with his artist’s stamp. Housed in two-tier contemporary Japanese wooden box. Manuscript table of contents pasted to inside of the lid. No Date or place, but Kyoto, 1820-40s.