Japanese Pottery: Being a Native Report. With an Introduction and Catalogue |
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Arita Banko ware Benshi Bizen ware brown glaze buff ware Celadon China Chinese Chojiro clay colours with gilding Corean covered cups CYLINDRICAL TEA BOWL decoration diam diapers enamel colours Figure FLOWER VASE hana-ike foot-rim glaze glaze crackled globular gold green grey ware Hagi Hizen imitation INCENSE BURNER koro Isé Japan Japanese Japanese pottery Karatsu Karatsu ware Kashiu kiln Kiôto Kiyomidzu Kutani ware lacquer maker's name manufacture Mark stamped Matsuye midzu-ire Mikawaji Nagato Ni-pon Ninagawa Ninsei Okawaji ornamented Owari painted in blue painted in colours painted in red PAIR OF FLOWER panels peonies period porcelain porcelain-making pottery Prince province of Hizen province of Nagato province of Omi province of Owari province of Satsuma Raku ware red ground SAKÉ Satsuma ware scrolls Seto Shigaraki Shoho specimens stoneware TEA BOWL cha-wan tea ceremonies TEA JAR cha-ire TEA POT tea utensils three small feet Tokio yaki Yeiraku Yokkaichi Zengoro
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Page 4 - ... containing incense (kobako) and some paper. He again leaves the chamber to bring in a vessel with ashes (hai-ki) and its spoon. He then makes up the fire and burns incense, to overpower the smell of the charcoal. While he is thus occupied, the guests beg to be allowed to inspect the incense-box, generally an...
Page 5 - He then makes up the fire and burns incense, to overpower the smell of the charcoal. While he is thus occupied, the guests beg to be allowed to inspect the incense-box, generally an object of value, which passes from hand to hand, and the last guest returns it to the host. " This closes the first part of the ceremony, and both host and guests withdraw. The second part commences with eating, and, as it is a rule that nothing should be left, the guests carry off, wrapped up in paper, any fragments...
Page 4 - ... or bell, when the host himself or a servant appears to conduct them into the chamber. The entrance being only three feet square, the host kneels and lets the guests creep in before him. They being seated in a semicircle, the host goes to the door of the side room in which the utensils are kept, saying : " I am very glad that you are come, and thank you much. I now go to make up the fire.
Page 19 - All the other nobles had cognisances of a like character with which they distinguished their furniture and accoutrements j but they occur less often on pottery and porcelain, though in some cases they may have suggested the motif of the ornament. Kiri-mon, The Badge of the Mikado's Family. MARKS. On Chinese porcelain the marks chiefly consist of a date, the names of the halls at which it was made, inscriptions commending the specimens, or ornamental" devices, none of which throw any light on the...
Page 70 - Minpei, a native of the island, who learned the potter's art from Ogata Shiuhei, in Gojiozaka near Kioto. It is of a very delicate yellow tint, like Awata ware, having a beautiful glaze covered with fine cracks, and carefully painted with more or less transparent enamels. Another kind is of a strongly-baked biscuit, glazed with a very fusible mixture of sand and oxide of lead ; which, by the addition of copper oxide, or certain natural coloured clays, assumes a green, yellow, or brown-red colour....
Page 6 - ... After solemn salutations and obeisances the utensils are wiped, and some of the powdered tea is placed in the tea-bowl, hot water is poured on it, and the whole is vigorously stirred with the whisk until it looks like thin spinach ; a boy then carries the bowl to the chief guest, from whom it passes round once more, that the guests may admire it. The utensils are then washed by the host, and the ceremony is at an end.
Page 16 - Vs?.n}fid01xw?5. carrying rolls of writing on the end of a staff, and holding a handscreen ; a young stag follows his footsteps. 6. Bishamon, the god of Military Glory, dressed as a warrior, and holding a spear and a small pagoda. 7. Benten, the goddess of Love, richly dressed ; sometimes attended by fifteen boys, her children. Of these divinities the first four are the most popular, and" few Japanese households are without figures of some of them on their domestic altars. Notwithstanding this universal...
Page 15 - ... belly, holding a bag and a hand screen. He is often accompanied by children, who play all kinds of tricks with this good-natured Diogenes of Japan. 5. Jurojin, a dignified figure, in the costume of a learned man, carrying rolls of writing...
Page 5 - A vessel containing fresh water (mizu-sachi), which is placed under the daisu. " 5. A tea-bowl of porcelain or earthenware (chawan), or, when of large size, temmoku, simple in form, but remarkable for its antiquity or historical associations. " Besides these, there is a bamboo whisk (cha-seu) ; a silk cloth (fukusa), usually purple, for wiping the utensils ; a spoon (chashaka), to take the tea out of the cha-ire
Page 52 - E 2 by hand alone, although other things were made — such as incense holders and water pitchers. It has always been in great favour in the tea ceremonies, not only on account of its artistic appearance, but also from its great smoothness and its speciality for keeping the water hot. The son of Ameya or Chojiro, who is known as the first of this family, used for marking the tea bowls the gold seal given him by Taiko ; but in the time of the second Chojiro this seal was lost, after which each manufacturer...