A Movie? - Why not?
Sometimes, when I look at a painting or hold an object in my hands, I fall into a dreamlike state. I dream of long-ago events, faraway...
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Manners, Money, and Modernity.
In reply to a telegram the Iemoto dips his brush in ink and writes this beautiful, well-spaced, but humble letter about manners, money,...
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Perfection is Nonsense
In Japan, when prized ceramics, especially those associated with chanoyu (the tea ceremony), were broken or damaged, they would be mended...
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Creating without idling is rare and praiseworthy. - Do not give up!
This letter is about fish and poetry, about gratitude and sorrow. Ishikawa Jozan was a prominent Samurai recluse, garden designer, and...
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Birds, Boats, and Cherry Blossom
Karsumaru Mitsuhiro was a distinguished poet and a major figure in the inner circles of Emperor Go-Mizunoo. Karasumaru Mitsuhiro,...
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Beyond Failure or Success
Kodojin - the Old Taoist - was both a poet and a painter. And he is remembered as being one of the last in a long line of literati...
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Monumental Fragility
An ambiguous tea bowl. It is monumental and in the same time it is shy, reclusive, and fragile. Rengetsu delicately finger-pinched the...
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More than Zen and pickled radish
Takuan Soho was the prototypical early Edo monk scholar with a sharp, witty, and untamed spirit. Dressed in a monk’s robe he pursued...
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An expression of respect, esteem, and gratitude by Matsumura Keibun... and about mending an umbrella
No doubt that Shibata Zeshin was the most prominent lacquer artist of the nineteenth century. And Ikeda Taishin (1825–1903) was his most...
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The mountains shout
If one day you would want to get away from your fancy, feverish, frantic urban life, where would you go? Where would you hope to find a...
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Joyful memories
Rengetsu’s life slowed down at around the age of 75. The long years of travelling, moving, and drifting came to an end in the small...
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Das Geheimnis verbirgt sich manchmal auf dem schwarzen Grund einer Teeschale
Allem Sammeln liegt eine kaum zähmbare Leidenschaft zugrunde. Warum aber gerade Keramik? Und warum ausgerechnet deformierte Keramiken aus...
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Flowers Bloom in an Infinite Universe inside a Teacup
When tea is poured into a teacup flowers bloom inside the cup. Move the teacup or pick it up and all of the flower petals scatter and...
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The Centuries-Old Japanese Tradition of Mending Broken Ceramics with Gold
Some four or five centuries ago in Japan, a lavish technique emerged for repairing broken ceramics. Artisans began using lacquer and gold pi
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A Display of 8000 Paper Sculptures Made from Chopstick Sleeves
Yuki Tatsumi was working as a waiter in a restaurant when one day, as he was cleaning up a table, he noticed that a customer had...
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Schönheit trinken. Warum ich mich neuerdings für Teeschalen begeistere – ein Besuch im Keramikmuseum
Von Marion Poschmann Töpfern – damit verbindet man hierzulande Volkshochschulkurse für gelangweilte Hausfrauen, Reha-Angebote,...
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Cultivating Femininity: Women and Tea Culture in Edo and Meiji Japan by Rebecca Corbett
The overwhelming majority of tea practitioners in contemporary Japan are women, but there has been little discussion on their historical...
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School of Life: MATSUO BASHO
"Matsuo Basho was one of the most famous Zen poets of Japan, who alerts us to the neglected beauty and interest of everyday life, and...
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HAIKYO: THE MODERN RUINS OF JAPAN
With mazes of expressways pushing scores of traffic through action filled, neon lit cities, there is perhaps no better platform than...
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RAKU KICHIZAEMON ON THE AVANT-GARDE TRADTITION OF RAKU WARE
Raku Kichizaemon, the fifteenth grand master of the Raku line of potters, creates avant-garde works of ceramic art rooted in 450 years of...
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