Flickwerk: The Aesthetics of Mended Japanese Ceramics

Christy Bartlett is the Founding Direct or of the
Urasenke Foundation San Francisco offi ce. From 1972
to 1981, she pract iced chanoyu, the Way of Tea, under
Sen Soshitsu XV, fi ft eenth generation Head Master of
the Urasenke Tradition of Chanoyu. In 1981, she was
asked to establish the fi rst Urasenke offi ce on the west
coast of the United States in San Francisco. In 2002,
Dr. Sen recognized her commitment to education
and study with one of its highest degrees, the seikyoju.
Ms. Bartlett has continued advanced studies in
the Graduate Division of East Asian Languages at
UC Berkeley, in addition to her work as Founding
Direct or, with a focus on research in sixteenth century
tea diaries and transmissions and the pract ice of
chanoyu as an art form.
James-Henry Holland is Associate Professor
of Japanese Language and Culture at Hobart and
William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.
Publications include “A Public Tea Gathering:
Theater and Ritual in the Japanese Tea Ceremony,”
Journal of Ritual Studies 14:1 (2000), and “Tea Records:
Kaiki and Oboegaki in Contemporary Japanese
Tea Pract ice,” in Morgan Pitelka (ed.): Japanese Tea
Culture: Art, History and Pract ice (Routledge Curzon,
2003). In addition to tea, his research interests
include gift exchange and material culture in Japan.
Charly Iten studied East Asian art history and
Japanese language at the University of Zurich,
Switzerland. In 2004 he presented his doct oral thesis
in which he focused on the tea bowls originating from
the small group of Japanese kilns that were favored by
Sen no Rikyū and Furuta Oribe. Aft er being a scientifi c
assistant for three years he is now working as an
expert and dealer in East Asian art. His main interests
include Japanese ceramics, painting and calligraphy.