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Acknowledgments

Over the four-hundred-year history of the tea ceremony, hundreds of valuable books have been published. I consider myself merely an interpreter of this great practice of cha no yu and introducer to the Western world, especially to young people. In creating this book, I owe much to the following people: my teacher Kishimoto Kosen, who has been my mentor for over a half century; from Dai Nippon Chado Gakkai Headquarters in Tokyo, both Ehara Shou, for her scholarly guidance, and its president, Tanaka Seno, author of Tea Ceremony, a well-known book originally published by Kodahsha; Tanaka Misho of Chado Gakkai School, who is teaching the tea ceremony at the Kikuzawa Higashi Elementary School of Shika numa City, Tochigi prefecture; Anzai Chizuko of the Urasenke School, who teaches at Sanbonmatsu Elementary School of Hachioji in Tokyo; Professor Kimiko Gunji of the Japan House, University of Illinois, for photography; and the children. Photographs were taken by Shozo Sato at Zakyu, a center for Japanese arts in northern California.