ARTHIST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Hanging Scroll, Raku Ware

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Art History
• Course: ARTHIST 1AA3
• Professor: Alison Mc Queen

Document Summary

Ateliers: studios, which produced work for art collectors. View of an interior of a tearoom known as: taian tearoom registered as a national treasure. It was part of a temple complex south of kyoto. Designed by: sen no rikyu who is famous for designing this and other such tearooms as well as his leadership in developing the tea ceremony. Sesshu"s (cid:449)ould ha(cid:448)e (cid:271)ee(cid:374) hu(cid:374)g i(cid:374) a tea roo(cid:373) su(cid:272)h as this. Item: tea bowl or yugure meaning twilight (not named by the artist who made it by a man who led tea ceremonies) It is a type of object called raku: o(cid:271)je(cid:272)ts (cid:449)ere origi(cid:374)ally shaped (cid:271)y ha(cid:374)d, rather tha(cid:374) (cid:449)ith a potter"s wheel. They were glazed and set at a low temperate. Valued for its form and how it nestled in your hand during tea ceremony. No object is more valued than the tea bowl. Date: edo period 1615-1868, the last of the three periods we looked at today.