Black Raku Tea Bowls (Chawan) #1
Black raku tea bowls hold a valued place in wabi tea of Sen no Rikyu. Admiring the color of green tea in a black tea bowl you will know the aesthetics of wabi and sabi through your own experience. Horst Hammitzsch in his book Zen in the Art of the Tea Ceremony, offers a concise description of the principles of wabi and sabi:
...the wabi feeling (is characterized by) a dark, subdued, yet pregnant beauty, the beauty of maturity. Sabi is characterized by the absence of obvious beauty, by the beauty of the colorless as opposed to the resplendent, by the beauty of the perishable as against the exuberantly active, by the beauty of a declining, yet wise, old age as against the beauty of an energetic yet immature youthfulness. The concept of sabi, then, carries not only the meaning `aged' - in the sense of `ripe with experience and insight' as well as `infused with the patina which lends old things their beauty' - but also that of tranquillity, aloneness, deep solitude.
Black raku tea bowls hold a valued place in wabi tea of Sen no Rikyu. Admiring the color of green tea in a black tea bowl you will know the aesthetics of wabi and sabi through your own experience. Horst Hammitzsch in his book Zen in the Art of the Tea Ceremony, offers a concise description of the principles of wabi and sabi:
...the wabi feeling (is characterized by) a dark, subdued, yet pregnant beauty, the beauty of maturity. Sabi is characterized by the absence of obvious beauty, by the beauty of the colorless as opposed to the resplendent, by the beauty of the perishable as against the exuberantly active, by the beauty of a declining, yet wise, old age as against the beauty of an energetic yet immature youthfulness. The concept of sabi, then, carries not only the meaning `aged' - in the sense of `ripe with experience and insight' as well as `infused with the patina which lends old things their beauty' - but also that of tranquillity, aloneness, deep solitude.
Black raku tea bowls hold a valued place in wabi tea of Sen no Rikyu. Admiring the color of green tea in a black tea bowl you will know the aesthetics of wabi and sabi through your own experience. Horst Hammitzsch in his book Zen in the Art of the Tea Ceremony, offers a concise description of the principles of wabi and sabi:
...the wabi feeling (is characterized by) a dark, subdued, yet pregnant beauty, the beauty of maturity. Sabi is characterized by the absence of obvious beauty, by the beauty of the colorless as opposed to the resplendent, by the beauty of the perishable as against the exuberantly active, by the beauty of a declining, yet wise, old age as against the beauty of an energetic yet immature youthfulness. The concept of sabi, then, carries not only the meaning `aged' - in the sense of `ripe with experience and insight' as well as `infused with the patina which lends old things their beauty' - but also that of tranquillity, aloneness, deep solitude.
Details:
Height 75 mm x Width 140 x Depth 140
357 grams
Inventory # TBR.83.21.B3
