Event
Summer special exhibitionExhibition for Parents and Children: What is Raku? Series
Raku Teabowl: Grasping a microcosm of the universe in one’s palms
July 13, 2013 (sat) – September 1, 2013 (sun)
Admission: Adults: 800yen
Students (university): 600yen
Students (high school): 300yen
Junior high school students and under :free
http://www.raku-yaki.or.jp/museum/exhibition/index.html
Venue
Raku Museum
http://www.raku-yaki.or.jp/e/
Access: 84 Aburanokôji Nakadachi-uri agaru, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto,
602-0923, Japan
Tel: 075-414-0304
Hours: 10：00 ~ 16：30
（entry up to 30 minutes before closing.）
Closed: Monday (Open: if the Monday is a national holiday)
Description
Raku ware – Raku tea bowls – were born about 430 years ago.It was during the Momoyama period in Japan when the warlords such as Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi had a great power and when a tea master named Sen Rikyû was culturally influential, who commissioned Raku Chôjirô, the founder of the Raku ware, to make a tea bowl suitable for his tea aesthetics.
The method of making that distinguishes Raku ware from that of Chinese or Korean wares as well as other Japanese examples is: Fired one at a time in a tiny kiln.Low firing temperature so that the clay keeps its textural quality. TEZUKUNE hand-moulding, without a use of the potter’s wheel. Trimming with HERA, the bamboo spatula, to model the desired shape.
This exhibition entitled ‘Raku Teabowl: Grasping a microcosm of the universe in one’s palms’ highlights unique characteristics of Raku tea bowls and its TEZUKE method in confrontation with other thrown tea bowls of Koryô wares from Korea or Japanese examples of Shino and Oribe, providing it with easy-to-understand comarisonn and explanation.
The exhibition is entirely dedicated to ‘Parents and Children’ to coincide with the summer vacation, therefore all the captions are made simple for our young audience. The visitors are also welcome to touch and handle the tools on display uniquely used by Raku generations.