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Attraction and Features of Ceramic Wares
Bizen Yaki
Arita Yaki
The attractions of Japanese ceramic wares are its rich variety. For examples, you can find naiveness and smells of soil in Bizen Yaki, in the right photo. In Arita Yaki, the accomplished design will impress you, in the right lower photo. Only by comparing the two different photos, you will understand the variety of Japanese ceramic wares.
Carrying on the tradition, even today numberless people put much intensity into the production of ceramic wares, from the daily wares to art works. For example, Shomura Ken, an artist of Arita Yaki, is making novel and wonderful designed works. Shomura Ken Website
The special feature of Japanese ceramic wares is the fact that producers of ceramic wares put their own personal philosophy or spirituality into their works intently. In terms of this aspect, taking the central role of developing the mode is Japanese way of tea, Sado(or Chado).
Sado is not only the manner of drinking tea, but it is a composite art. It intends human relation, manner, tea-things, environment, place, garden, building, room, picture, flower, food, etc., and put own personal philosophy into them.
Sen Rikyu, who established Sado, and his favorite potter, Chojiro, produced magnetic cups for embodying their spirituality. When you look the cups, you will feel the beauty of a natural stone appearing from soil. Chojiro's Descendants, Raku Website
Veiw of Ceramic Wares Pages
History of Japanese Ceramic Wares