Tuesday TeaDay 7/13/10 No limits and the golden TeaChalice?

[Geekgirl]

Oh yeah baby. I can think of a few kyusu I'd pick up right now. And a couple of chawan, and probably a couple high quality yixing, some makie'd utensils, and, and, and... oh excuse me, was I drooling?

[JBaymore]

Let's see, "teaware" might be interpreted to include a separte tea house in a tea garden? Yes?

best,

...........john

[artmom]

John, I guess I just don't have the sense, sensibility, or class yet to appreciate the those expensive chaiwans! As an art lover, though, I expect I could learn to understand why they differ from run of the mill objects. I remember the first time I saw a Van Gogh (Undergrowth with Two Figures) in person, I saw it about 100 feet away and without knowing the artist, was drawn to it like the proverbial moth to a flame!

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This rather dull image does in no way resemble the glow that I felt eminated from that painting!!! I have since seen more of his original works and most of them awaken the same awe when I see them. You can learn to appreciate different types of art or artisanal objects.

[Marco]

I think a little to a lot
I only buy teaware I like - it has to have something - and there is never enough. Okay you need just one pot and one cup. The rest is for the soul
I admire a lot of teaware that I cannot afford. If funds are unlimited I would buy everything
But be honest - it wouldn't be the same piece of teaware in your heart.

Great TD today. Started with Den's Matcha Kaze in the morning - which still is only decent for me. Had the Sencha from Den's great teasampler at work - yea - and at home I started with Sencha Fukamidori from this teasampler. Continued with Kokeicha from NBT - did you ever try something like this? - its realy great. And now I have a Malawi Dark Fired Thylo from NBT - very nice.

ciao
Marco

[AdamMY]

Let's see, "teaware" might be interpreted to include a separte tea house in a tea garden? Yes?

best,

...........john

I was thinking about that, I mean I suppose teaware could mean I buy a nice piece of property with a spring on it and build the teahouse of my dreams basically around the spring with great landscaping all around the teahouse. That is teaware right ?

[JRS22]

I would buy and use beautiful hand-made kyusu(s). I just recently purchased a small kyusu by Gyokko from Artistic Nippon for $35 plus shipping. I was lusting after a nerikomi kyusu but I decided that I couldn't deal with the pain of breaking it. But with unlimited funds that wouldn't be an issue.

I don't need cups - I take a pottery class and every so often I add to my collection of "tea goblets".

In my cup this morning - extra green genmaicha from Den's.

[nickE]

Mine would definitely change a lot. There's so much great teaware out there! That I cannot afford..

Started the day with Sencha. Kind of today, oh well.

Followed by some cheap SN from Rishi that's been in my cabinet forever. It's still really good!

[Cael]

I would probably change things a lot, but I only really decided that in thinking about the fact that a tea house could be considered a tea accessory. If I had unlimited funds I would probably have my own tea company/ several tea houses where I would hold tea tastings and other events. In which case, yes the tea accessories that I use would also be different because I would need a whole lot more of them. Ah, the things I could do with unlimited funds.

[JBaymore]

That is teaware right ?

Yeah... yeah. You got it. Right!

[JBaymore]

John, I guess I just don't have the sense, sensibility, or class yet to appreciate the those expensive chaiwans! As an art lover, though, I expect I could learn to understand why they differ from run of the mill objects. I remember the first time I saw a Van Gogh (Undergrowth with Two Figures) in person, I saw it about 100 feet away and without knowing the artist, was drawn to it like the proverbial moth to a flame!

artmom,

Really stunning claywork has the same kind of power and grace as the Van Gogh painting you mentioned. Unfortunately, you just need the opportunities to experience such works first hand to start to really understand them.

A painting, being primarily a visual object, can be reasonably appreciated in a typical museum setting....at least to some degree. Unfortunately, pottery, being a combination of a visual and a tactile object, that sometimes also requires food stuffs, does not "translate well" when viewed locked in a glass case, unable to be handled. A chawan........ well........ putting it in a case is sort of an insult to it's existance.

Solely because of my profession, I have been fortunate to have the oppoprtunity to at least handle and even use (in Chanoyu) a number of really good chawan in Japan. At least one was an official listed cultural property. I also am fortunate enough to have a few really good pieces myself in my collection...a couple from LNTs. All of that has allowed me the experience base to start to understand these objects.

Add to that the fact that I have studied clay objects and art and design since high school days....... lots of formal and informal study.

Just take the oportunities you get and ask questions as you study claywork.

best,

.................john

[debunix]

I want to report a terrible, terrible, event: a tealess day. A no-tea tea-day. And yet, the sun came up, the sun came down, and I survive, but tealess.

Must make up for this horror tomorrow.

[olivierco]

With unlimited funds I would take a trip to Japan and get some teaware starting with gyokusendo so my teaware may change a little.

Warashina shincha after lunch.

[Chip]

I was pretty busy with the TC TA SO yesterday, so never got to answer yesterday's topic.

Yeah, some change would be inevitable. Expanding horizons perhaps. Yeah, I would expect lots of change actually.

Great TD, lots of shincha tasting!

[Seeker]

Hmmm.
Kind of hard to say, at first, probably would be some change.
Like a tea space/room/house?
Some amazing tea storage and display furnishings in the space?
And maybe included would be some tea travel that would inevitably include tea ware acquisition -- one might say, oh, tea travel for the purpose of tea ware acquisition?
Yeah!

[JBaymore]

So Chip...... can you get Bill Gates to take care of all this for us all please?

best,

.........john