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Edo-period Yashima-yaki nagashi-gusuri tea bowl by Mitani Rinzo with Kuroda Totoan sai-sei-bako

Yashima-yaki: The Bowl from the Battle Site | Z...

The Bowl What you notice first is the dark green-black glaze spilling from the rim. The flow is not uniform. It follows gravity — pooling here, thinning there, each vertical...

Yashima-yaki: The Bowl from the Battle Site | Z...

The Bowl What you notice first is the dark green-black glaze spilling from the rim. The flow is not uniform. It follows gravity — pooling here, thinning there, each vertical...

Seto-glaze matcha bowl by Eiraku Zengoro with signed paulownia tomobako box

Eiraku Zengoro and Senke Jisshoku | Zen Archive

The Bowl What you notice first is the color of the glaze — warm as honey. The amber glaze catches the light softly near the rim, then deepens as it...

Eiraku Zengoro and Senke Jisshoku | Zen Archive

The Bowl What you notice first is the color of the glaze — warm as honey. The amber glaze catches the light softly near the rim, then deepens as it...

Aka-Raku tea bowl 'Sakura-shimo' by Raku Ryōnyū IX with original tomobako and Omotesenke Jimyōsai authentication box

How to Read a Raku Tea Bowl | The Modern Zen Ar...

The First Thing the Eye Finds Turn a Raku bowl over. What your eye finds first is not the glaze, and not the shape. It is a single character pressed...

How to Read a Raku Tea Bowl | The Modern Zen Ar...

The First Thing the Eye Finds Turn a Raku bowl over. What your eye finds first is not the glaze, and not the shape. It is a single character pressed...

Black Raku tea bowl by 11th-generation Kichizaemon Keinyuu, Edo period — the lineage Rikyu began

Nobunaga's Invention: When Tea Bowls Replaced C...

水脈 — The Undercurrent #01 Oda Nobunaga had a problem. By the 1570s, he controlled more of Japan than any warlord in a century. Province after province bent the knee....

Nobunaga's Invention: When Tea Bowls Replaced C...

水脈 — The Undercurrent #01 Oda Nobunaga had a problem. By the 1570s, he controlled more of Japan than any warlord in a century. Province after province bent the knee....

A single morning glory in a dark ceramic vase on the tokonoma alcove — Rikyu's radical subtraction

The Single Morning Glory — Zen and the Way of Tea

Archive Entry 006 — Zen and the Way of Tea The Single Morning Glory 1. The Cost of Beauty Beauty is not something given.Sometimes, it is discovered through devastating subtraction....

The Single Morning Glory — Zen and the Way of Tea

Archive Entry 006 — Zen and the Way of Tea The Single Morning Glory 1. The Cost of Beauty Beauty is not something given.Sometimes, it is discovered through devastating subtraction....

Ancient weathered tea bowl in beam of light — Objects That Outlive Their Makers

The Archive — Entry 005: Objects That Outlive T...

Archive Entry 005 explores how Japanese tea tools and handmade bowls embody the Zen concept of Emptiness as a storage of infinite possibility.

The Archive — Entry 005: Objects That Outlive T...

Archive Entry 005 explores how Japanese tea tools and handmade bowls embody the Zen concept of Emptiness as a storage of infinite possibility.