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[Duane Feasel preparing tea for Somi Mochizuki at home, Los Angeles, California, December 26, 1970]
Maker
Toyo Miyatake Studio
Maker
Rafu Shimpo
Date1970
DimensionsNeg Type: 120.00 mm
ClassificationsPhotographic Archives
Credit LinePhotograph by Toyo Miyatake Studio, Gift of the Alan Miyatake Family
Object number96.267.1180
Description2 negatives : b&w ; 120 mm. , Published in Rafu Shimpo, December 28, 1970, Japanese section.;Duane Feasel, or Sosei, the first foreign teacher of Urasenke, prepares tea for his former teacher, Mrs. Somi Mochizuki, at her Tea Ceremony Studio in the Sun Building on Weller Street, Los Angeles, California, December 26, 1970. Includes two views of tea ceremony with Caucasian man in kimono pouring water into tea bowl, and woman admiring tea bowl. Man sits on knees, seiza, at left next to tea accessories in corner, while woman sits seiza on tatami in patterned kimono and eyeglasses in front of empty shelving of tokonoma. Shoji windows in background.
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Tasaki, Katherine
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