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Chawan (煎茶碗 "tea bowl"), also known as Kumidashi (汲み出し), normally a small-sized cup (yunomi) made out of porcelain and glazed in white; Wantō (碗筒 "bowl tube") is a tube or container normally made out of woven bamboo, to store the small chawan tea cups; Tea cup coasters, made out metal, wood or lacquer (煎茶托 Chataku or ...
On October 3, 2008, after the arson incident on the Minami adult video store in Osaka, the prefectural governor of Tokyo, Ishihara Shintaro, made the following comment concerning lodging establishments in Sanya and the people displaced from the fire, “If you go to Sanya, there are plenty of places you can stay for 200 or 300 yen, but in ...
National Treasure (Japan) Tenmoku takes its name from the Tianmu Mountain (天目 Mandarin: tiān mù; Japanese: ten moku; English: Heaven's Eye) temple in China where iron-glazed bowls were used for tea. [3] The style became widely popular during the Song dynasty. In Chinese it is called Jian Zhan (建盏), [4] which means "Jian (tea)cup". [5] [6]
This is a list of slums. A slum as defined by the United Nations agency UN-Habitat , is a run-down area of a city characterized by substandard housing, squalor, and lacking in tenure security. According to the United Nations, the percentage of urban dwellers living in slums decreased from 47 percent to 37 percent in the developing world between ...
The chawan originated in China. The earliest chawan in Japan were imported from China between the 13th and the 16th centuries. [1] The Jian chawan, a Chinese tea bowl known as Tenmoku chawan in Japan, was the preferred tea bowl for the Japanese tea ceremony until the 16th century. [2]
Are there other parts of Japan where one can feel the ultimate tea tourist? Absolutely. Shizuoka Prefecture is one of the country’s largest tea-producing areas and home to the Fuji no Kuni Tea ...
In Japan, cherished items are customarily stored in purpose-made wooden boxes. Valuable items for tea ceremony are usually stored in such a box, and in some cases, if the item has a long and distinguished history, several layers of boxes: an inner storage box (uchibako), middle storage box (nakabako), and outer storage box (sotobako).
Kamagasaki (釜ヶ崎) is an old place name for a part of Nishinari-ku in Osaka, Japan. Airin-chiku (あいりん地区) became the area's official name in May 1966.. It has the largest day laborer concentration in the country. 30,000 people are estimated to live in every 2,000 meter radius in this area, part of which has been in slum-like conditions until as recently as 2012, containing run ...