Journal
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...
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...
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...
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....
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....
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.