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RAKU -A Living Tradition: Sixteen generations of Japanese tea bowl makers

RAKU -A Living Tradition: Sixteen generations of Japanese tea bowl makers

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Sixteen generations, one family, one form of tea bowl.
More than 450 years of Raku, gathered quietly into one volume.

“16世代がつなぐ茶碗の美”: the beauty of the tea bowl, carried across sixteen generations.

It began with a meeting between the tea master Sen no Rikyū and the potter Chōjirō. Since then, each generation of the Raku family has made bowls for tea. Each one has carried the tradition forward while answering to the sensibility of its own time.

This book brings together around 200 representative works, from Chōjirō, the first generation, to the sixteenth Raku Kichizaemon. Seen side by side, the bowls show both continuity and change: the same family and the same purpose, yet each generation finding its own beauty.

The fifteenth generation, Raku Jikinyū, opens with an overview essay. It is followed by commentary on each generation and notes on individual works. The book was compiled under the supervision of the Raku Museum.

A book to return to slowly. It is for those who prepare tea, those who make, and anyone who has held a chawan and wondered about the hands behind it.

 

Details
Seigensha Art Publishing, Kyoto
Authors: Raku Jikinyū, Raku Kichizaemon
Supervised by the Raku Museum
English only
348 pages
Softcover, B5 variant

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