Green tea became popular during the mid-Edo period through early Showa period, thus many tea ceremonies were held. Among the tea ceremony articles published in addition to the event, with 51 illustrated book of the green tea ceremony as records, this is the first of the study of clarifying the characteristics of the green tea ceremony room.
 The following were found, after bibliographic consideration of the targeted 51 records of the bibliography of illustrated book of the green tea ceremony.
 The authors of the bibliography were often hosts of the green tea ceremony, whom centered around literati in Edo period, antique dealers and politicians after the Meiji period in urban area, and local potentates in rural area.
 Composition and form of illustrated books are thought to have passed down and spread through literati and antique dealers who often attended the green tea ceremony.
 Most of the bibliography were published during the Meiji period, in cities in Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo, and Aichi. Green tea were especially popular in these 4 areas, and from there the culture spread all over the nation.

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