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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 ...
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 ...
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]
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).
Like Ureshino, Uji is appropriately tea-forward: There’s an annual tea festival and a street, Byodo-in Omotesando, lined with shops full of tea-related treasures where one can also participate ...
The current Matsubayashi Hosai became the 16th generation head of Asahi warei in 2016. He continues the Asahi ware traditional aesthetic of kirei sabi (beauty and simplicity) based on the aesthetics of the tea ceremony master Kobori Enshu. Today Hosai XVI produces mostly tea utensils like tea bowls, tea caddies, water jars, and vases.
Soba choko (Japanese: そば猪口, romanized: sobachoko) are 3–9 cm cup-sized Japanese porcelain vessels, suitable for drinking sake or Japanese tea, or for eating soba noodles. They were mass-produced for domestic use in Japan in the Edo Imari period (1620–1886), traditionally sold in sets of five, often non-matching.