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<p>In an era dominated by efficiency, this paper explores the generative potential of inefficiency through the ritual of tea. Drawing on cultural psychology and phenomenologically informed poetic autoethnography, the study analyzes narrative vignettes from tea practice to examine how inefficiency reorganizes embodied and relational experience. It argues that tea practices cultivate sensory presence, relational depth, and existential spaciousness. By foregrounding "small data"—silence, gesture, and fragment—the manuscript repositions inefficiency as a site of ethical and aesthetic becoming. The ritual is conceptualized as a "Human Arena" where the boundaries of self and other are reconfigured, offering a quiet resistance to instrumental rationality and providing a new framework for relational care in contemporary society.</p>

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Navigating the Arena of Inefficiency: A Phenomenological Study of Relational Attunement and Care through Tea Practice

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    2026年3月31日

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  • Hiroyuki Hiratsuka

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In an era dominated by efficiency, this paper explores the generative potential of inefficiency through the ritual of tea. Drawing on cultural psychology and phenomenologically informed poetic autoethnography, the study analyzes narrative vignettes from tea practice to examine how inefficiency reorganizes embodied and relational experience. It argues that tea practices cultivate sensory presence, relational depth, and existential spaciousness. By foregrounding "small data"—silence, gesture, and fragment—the manuscript repositions inefficiency as a site of ethical and aesthetic becoming. The ritual is conceptualized as a "Human Arena" where the boundaries of self and other are reconfigured, offering a quiet resistance to instrumental rationality and providing a new framework for relational care in contemporary society.