ART HIS 42C Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Bizen Ware, Raku Ware, Stoneware
26 Oct 2019
School
Department
Course
Professor
Professor Winther Tamaki
Art history department
Art History 42 C
Japanese Art History
Course Code 21020
Discussion code 21021
4 units
No Pre-Reqs
Location: HG1800
Notes
Image 1:
Name: Tea Bowl, Korean
Time Period: momoyama
Material: ido ware (cheap stoneware), stoneware with crackled glaze, gold lacquer
Features: Made from stone-ware which fires at a higher temperature than earthenware, but lower
temperature than porcelain.
Image 2:
Name: Tea Scoops
Time Period: Momoyama
Material: wood
Features: Three different type of tea scoops. All of them are representations of a different
personality. Daishin scoop - more robust and hopeful (thickest one closest to us), Rikyu - more
delicate yet firm (middle), Kamon - more relaxed and generous (the one in the back).
● Rikyu - made use of unlikely objects from near and far in his wabi tea practice, the tea
bowl is a central implement in the tea service and until this time, chinese black jian-ware
bowls w/sophisticated designs were the norm and favored in japanese tea, however rikyu
decided to creatively use korean ido pieces as tea bowls, it was revolutionary for both
him and his contemporaries, went against the norm with his principles of using something
that is imperfect and in danger of being disposed with and giving it a new purpose and in
a sense being reborn. This broke many rules of the past and it opened our eyes by making
us see these old objects as new.
Image 3:
Name: Large Dish
Time Period: Momoyama
Material: stoneware (2nd highest firing temp behind porcelain)
Features: bizen ware because it is made of a reddish clay and within the middle we see a design
of strokes. Known as reddish scars.
● Bizen - reddish clay
● Iga - bumpy surface
● Raku - tea bowl
● Shino - known for its white glaze
● Oribe - complicated, deviates from wabi
Image 4
Name: water jar named yaburebukuro
Time Period: momoyama
Material: stoneware (iga ware)
