Some gorgeous Chawan pottery

by **joelbct** » Apr 21st, '08, 15:22

Dabido

Some of my faves:

Aka (Red) Shino Chawan by Suzuki Goro Chawan

Golden Raku Chawan by Suzuki Goro

Black Seto Chawan by Suzuki Goro

Black Raku Chawan by Shoraku Sasaki III

[edit: see below, for some additional antique Chawan]

by **olivierco** » Apr 21st, '08, 15:42

Too bad the last one is sold!

by **brianlavelle** » Apr 21st, '08, 15:51

joelbct wrote:Dabido

Just search for chawan, there are 200 of them.

Coincidentally, I came across that site at the weekend whilst searching for some Deishi pottery. There are some amazing pieces on there

Sadly, this stunning Deishi Oni Hagi chawan is sold...

by **joelbct** » Apr 21st, '08, 16:01

Well and too bad they cost so much

I am fond of this one as well:

Black Raku-yaki Tea Bowl by Ichiraku

by **ThinkingOutLoud** » Apr 21st, '08, 16:13

Those black raku ones are my faves, too. Gorgeous stuff.

by **joelbct** » Apr 21st, '08, 22:25

Gorgeous and stunning yes... many of these pieces are truly high art and could well be in museums! Quite an inspiration to a humble novice collector such as I...

I have requested this Chawan from Artistic Nippon, which is also very beautiful, I can't wait:

There's something about these Chawan, they are so organic it is like they are alive and just begging to be held and touched by human hands

I kind of want to take a pottery course now... there are some instructions for building a Raku Kiln linked from wikipedia, and this guy is selling an ebook on making Raku...

by **Space Samurai** » Apr 21st, '08, 23:20

I have that very kuro raku, the actual one in the picture, in fact, and I LOVE it. It is such a pleasure to use.

by **joelbct** » Apr 21st, '08, 23:56

Yah Space I remember you posting about it a few months ago, and I had been eying it since, having been first drawn to the similar item at Hibiki-An

BTW I recently happened across your blog, very well done, and you are an excellent photographer. (This coming from someone who did B&W darkroom work himself for 7 years in school, so I like to think I am a decent judge

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by **Space Samurai** » Apr 22nd, '08, 00:44

Thanks Joel, that's very nice of you to say.

by **chamekke** » Apr 22nd, '08, 01:58

In case you raku fiends are interested...

The tea-ceremony supplier Tea Toys has a webpage devoted to the care of tea utensils, and raku is right at the top:

http://www.teatoys.com/kfacts.html

A couple of translations: shokyaku is Japanese for "first guest" (i.e. the first person to be served tea), and Kichizaemon is the head of the Raku family atelier that provides raku chawan-s to the tea masters of Japan. Mukozuke are appetizer dishes used in kaiseki meals in tea ceremony (and "kaiseli" is just a typo for kaiseki).