Hagi Tea Bowl

Ceramics

Craft Artist: Takao Tahara

ORIGIN: Nagato, Yamaguchi Prefecture
RELEASE: 2019
SIZE: φ134mm × H83mm
MATERIAL: Clay

Scenery of tea ceremony

A beautiful Hagi tea bowl which has gentle textures and fine crackles. This piece inherits the tradition of Hagi from the generations and evokes the ancient tea ceremony. This Hagi tea bowl whose color deepens each time we make tea, and the devotion of the artist who connects the unwavering tradition to the future of Hagi, seems to be overlapped.

RESOURCE

Kan-nyu (Crackle)
- Technique
The cracking that appears on the surface of glazed ceramics as a result of the differing rates of expansion and contraction between base and glaze during firing. Crackle is regarded as an important factor in appreciating the aesthetic quality of such ceramic works.
Hagi ware
- Generic term
Ceramics made mainly in Hagi City and Nagato City in Yamaguchi Prefecture. It is roughly classified as Matsumoto-hagi and Fukawa-hagi and are mainly made into tea bowls.
First Raku, second Hagi, third Karatsu
- Generic term
An expression that refers to three kinds of pottery treasured by Japanese tea ceremony experts. They are Raku ware from Kyoto, Hagi ware from Yamaguchi and Karatsu ware from Kitakyushu.

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