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Idemitsu Museum of Arts: the ceramics collection

Located at 9F Teigeki Building 3-1-1 Marunouchi, Chiyoda City, Tokyo -- The Idemitsu Museum of Arts was opened in 1966 as an exhibition hall for the Idemitsu Collection. The building is located on the 9th floor of the Imperial Theater Building looking down over the beautiful Imperial Garden in Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo. The museum is designed to incorporate the Japanese spirit of welcome in the setting of the modern building and invites visitors to enjoy the artworks in comfortable and relaxed atmosphere. Special exhibitions are held about six times a year, with themed exhibitions of selected works from the Idemitsu Collection of Japanese painting and calligraphy, and East Asian ceramics. The unique feature of the Museum is the Sherd Room where fragments of pottery collected from kilns around Asia and Egypt (Fustat site, Cairo) are displayed. The Idemitsu Collection includes representative works of Eastern Asian antiques, gathered over some 70 years by Sazo Idemitsu (1885-1981), f...

What is: Japanese Tea Ceremony

The Japanese tea ceremony, also called the Way of Tea, is a Japanese cultural activity involving the ceremonial preparation and presentation of matcha the powdered green tea. There are two main ways of preparing matcha for tea consumption: thick ( 濃茶 koicha) and thin ( 薄茶 usucha), as the terms imply, koicha is a thick blend of matcha and hot water that requires about three times as much tea to the equivalent amount of water than usucha. To prepare usucha, matcha and hot water are whipped using the tea whisk ( 茶筅 chasen), while koicha is kneaded with the whisk to smoothly blend the large amount of powdered tea with the water. On this particular pottery workshop that I did with Shozo Michikawa sensei, each workshop participants must produce 1 chawan (tea bowl) for the Tea Ceremony that will be held at the end of the pottery workshop. Tea bowls (chawan) are available in a wide range of sizes and styles, and different styles are used for thick and thin tea. Shallow bo...

What is: Anagama Firing

Some of you might not know yet, but in this lifetime, I am also a potter (among other hats I am wearing). [me stoking the anagama kiln with wood as fuel] [schooling time, learning how to throw 'seasons" tea bowl for tea ceremony] I sometimes hand built pieces that I made out of clay and sometime I throw them on an electric wheel. To throw the clay means to form a piece using an electric wheel or sometimes just a plain old kick wheel (old school). If I have to explain the whole process of ceramic making, I might end up writing a book out of it. So to simplify and just stick to the title of the post; I will focus on Anagama wood firing. [pieces that I have thrown on an electric wheel that I will carved later] [carved and trimmed pieces, raw clay] [making huge plate] [hand-carved this tea bowl, as it has to weigh 270 gram before firing] [wadding our pottery before stacking them inside the kiln] [sorting out these raw pieces before stacking them into the kiln] Anagama is a Japan...

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