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context: tea ceremony > sources
Rediscovering Rikyu And The Beginnings Of The Japanese Tea Ceremony by Herbert Plutschow
Dreadful. Another academic book, summarising Rikyu. Solid research, lousy writing in an academic style, no evidence of interesting thought. It more than once claims that certain people were "literally hunting" for good ceramic items, which evokes absurd images. If you are interested in the subject, this is a good collection of what is known about Rikyu and what happened when - often in dreary and repetitive detail - but the conventional academic thinking rarely rises above the vacuous.