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Arita ware ASH BOWL Awaji ware Awata ware Banko ware Bizen ware buff ware Celadon China Chinese Chojiro clay colours with gilding Corean covered cups decoration diam diapers Dôhachi factory FLOWER VASE hana-ike Fujina ware glaze glaze crackled globular gold green grey ware Hagi Hizen imitation INCENSE BURNER koro Isé Japan Japanese pottery Karatsu Karatsu ware kiln Kiôto Kiyomidzu ware Kutani ware lacquer maker maker's name manufacture Mark stamped Matsuyé midzu-ire Mikawaji Minato Ni-pon Ninagawa Ninsei Okawaji Owari painted in blue painted in colours PAIR OF FLOWER panels period porcelain Prince province of Hizen province of Idsumo province of Nagato province of Omi province of Owari province of Satsuma Raku ware red ground rudely SAKÉ Satsuma ware scrolls Seto ware Shigaraki Shino ware Shoho Shonsui specimens stoneware TEA BOWL cha-wan tea ceremonies TEA JAR cha-ire TEA POT tea utensils three small feet Tokio yaki Yokkaichi Zengoro
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Page xix - 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 that remain. The utensils used in this part of the ceremony are as follows : — " 1. An iron kettle (kama) with a copper or iron lid, resting on a stand (kama-shiki). " 2. A table or stand (daisu) of mulberry wood, two feet high. " 3. Two tea-jars (cha-ire") containing the fine powdered tea, and enclosed in bags of brocade.
Page xviii - ... square feet ; on one side was another smaller room, called Midzu-ya (water-room), where the utensils were arranged ; on the other side was another small room for receiving the guests. Surrounding the house or apartment was a garden, Ro-ji (dewy ground). Two modes of conducting the ceremonies were observed — the winter and summer modes. In the former the garden was strewn with fir leaves, the guests retained their shoes, and the furnace for the kettle was a pit in the floor filled with ashes....
Page 108 - The Industries of Japan. Together with an account of its Agriculture, Forestry. Arts, and Commerce. From travels and researches undertaken at the cost of the Prussian Government.
Page xviii - He then brings in a basket (sumi-tori) containing charcoal in pieces of a prescribed length, a brush (mitsu-ba) made of three feathers, a pair of tongs (hibashi), the stand of the kettle (kama-shiki), iron handles for the kettle, a lacquer box containing incense (kobako) and some paper.
Page xix - ... (shaku). All these objects are brought in singly by the host in their prescribed order. 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 the party to the last, who returns it empty to the boy. The empty bowl is then passed round once more...
Page xviii - ... 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.
Page 72 - No. 289.77. SATSUMA WARE. This ware is now made in the village of Nawashirogawa, in the province of Satsuma. It is known that pottery-making was introduced from Corea in the period Onin or Bummei (1467-86). At first the manufacture consisted of a kind of stoneware covered with a glaze mixed with oxides of iron and lead, and occasionally of a white ware similar to Corean porcelain. In the beginning of the...
Page xix - 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 82 - Gombei, he succeeded, after making various experiments, lasting over many years. In the second year of Sho-ho (AD 1645), was commenced the export of pieces ornamented with coloured enamels, in gold and silver, etc., in the first place to a Chinaman named Hachikan. Business was then opened with the...
Page xix - 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" ; and a water- ladle (shaku). All these objects are brought in singly by the host in their prescribed order. " After solemn salutations and obeisances the utensils are...