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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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...
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...
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...
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
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,...
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...
LOOKING AT CONTEMPORARY ART THROUGH THE EYES OF A TEA MASTER
ARETHE festival aspires to make people experience contemporary Japanese art through the ritual tradition called chado (the way of tea)....
THE TEABOWL : EAST AND WEST by Bonnie Kemske
The teabowl has become an iconic form in contemporary ceramics. Having travelled from Japan, where it was an inherent part of chanoyu, or...
SOETSU YANAGI : SELECTED ESSAYS ON JAPANESE FOLK CRAFTS
Sixteen essays by Soetsu Yanagi, key figure of the Japanese folk craft (Mingei) movement. A must read for anybody who liked Yanagi's book...
EASTERN PHILOSOPHY - KINTSUGI
"Kintsugi is the remarkable Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with elegance and grace - a tradition with a lot to teach us more...
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