Event
Summer Exhibition – What is Raku? Tea Bowls – Texture – WarmthJul 6, 2019 (sat) – Aug 18, 2019(sun)
Hours: 10：00 ~ 16：30（entry up to 30 minutes before closing.）
Closed: Monday (Open: if the Monday is a national holiday)
Admission:
Adults ¥900
University Students ¥700
High School Students ¥400
Under Juniour High School free admission
Venue
Raku Museumhttp://www.raku-yaki.or.jp/e/
Access:Aburanokôji-dôri Ichijô sagaru Kamigyo-ku Kyoto 602-0923
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
Rugged, GrittyRough, Smooth
Tea bowl is endowed with various textural feels.
When warmed with hot water, the clay gets slightly moistened.
Your hands touch the surface of a bowl, which bears the warmth of a body temperature.
Your lip touches the surface of the bowl, when the fragrance of green matcha tea gently enters through your body.
A bowl of tea is whisked just for you.
A subtle warmth of tea fills your mind and body.
Softness of the clay still lingers in touching a Raku tea bowl, which is hand-built without a use of the potter’s wheel.
It maintains a tender warmth of human hands because of this.
Raku-yaki. The unique tradition was founded by Raku Chōjirō.
Rikyū’s wabicha philosophy lies underneath Raku wares throughout as a guiding principle.
This exhibition showcases various faces of a Raku tea bowl explored through characteristic textural feels, such as rugged, gritty, rough and smooth, and experience the warmth of the surface of a typical Raku tea bowl.