TORA: You hear me? Take responsibility for your words!
Sorry about that. One last thing for you. Rakugo seems to the up-&-coming thing these days.
#Tiger&Dragon #TigerAndDragon
#DragonSoda #Furya #ChaNoYu =)
Christmas chanoyu with delicious matcha from my cousin’s tea shop in Oslo, Norway. “Gamle Ørn” translates to “old eagle” and has layered meaning in Norwegian culture. Sweets were chestnut chakin shibori and roasted persimmon. Merry Christmas! #chanoyu #teaceremony #matcha
Tea lessons in an ancient mountain forest above the Tucson desert was a stroke of fortune in this week of chaos. How healing to have tea beneath pines that have lived far longer than our country has even existed. Our sweets plate was a piece of bark shed from a centuries-old tree. #chanoyu #tea
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Chabako in Seattle by Seward Park’s giant torii gate with my friends Ophi and Tali. What a beautiful day! I had also planned a memorial tea at a former Japanese internment camp in Canada but had a fairly serious injury. (Thankfully I’m healing up and won’t need surgery.) #teaceremony #chanoyu #tea
#chanoyu for a friend recovering from surgery. Sweets plate is an antique shigaraki saggar. Sweets were yokan made from dried tiger figs and powdered fig leaves from my garden. Shang Dynasty Gu hanaire. Chashaku is “Empty Shell:”
Cicada’s empty shell —
It sang itself
Utterly away
(Bashō)
Front of teabowl with crawling glaze and finger marks.
Back of teabowl.
Foot of teabowl showing wadding marks.
Mino style bowl using 100% unprocessed Cameron clay from North Carolina, and a simple shino-like glaze. Woodfired @starworksnc.bsky.social
#sado #chanoyu #茶碗 #茶の湯 #茶道 #woodfired pottery #woodfiredceramics #noborigamafired #shino #shinoglaze
Celestial tea. Scroll says, “When I scoop water in my hands: the moon.”
Chashaku is named “Magnitude” after the Kevin Valentine haiku:
Canopy of Stars,
The magnitude
Of not knowing
Mizusashi by Kinoto Kuniko. Moon chawan by Alexis Ellis. Poured glass sweets plate.
#chanoyu #teaceremony #haiku
Tanabata candle-lit tea — with a black light and phosphorescent teaware by Kinoto Kuniko and Zeinab Manesh! Afterward we attached our wishes on prayer bells and hung them in the trees in our front yard. #teaceremony #tanabata #chanoyu
Memory from my last trip to Japan.
This is the Ichijo Ekan Sanso tea house in Kamakura . Personally, I would be so nervous performing tema on that surface.
#chanoyu #茶の湯 #茶室 #teahouse #kamakura #鎌倉
Tea room at a recent project with Awahiro Japanese Carpentry. #cha #chanoyu #tea #teahouse #japanesestyle #japanesearchitecture #japanesewoodworking
My beautiful niece, Rachel, asked if we could do tea during her latest visit. She is pretty much a human mermaid, lives on the beach, and is constantly compared to Ariel, so an oceanic theme was definitely called for. Such a delight! ❤️☀️🌊🐚🧜♀️
#chanoyu #japaneseteaceremony
Today's tea class. Scroll says Mu. Nothingness. Tea scoop was named Fu-Ki Wealth and Honor from the Ryokan poem Wealth and Honor are only dust. Meaning everything you have in this life is from seeds you planted in your previous life so continue to plant seeds in this one. #Urasenke #chanoyu #tea
Today's tea class. The scroll says 100 Flowers Dance meaning the Spring wind blowing through 10,000 countries (=everywhere) lets 100 flowers dance or a flower blooms for us to know Spring has come everywhere. Calligrapher female Suyiho. #teaceremony #chanoyu #Urasenke
Side of bowl showing a red stripe where the surface transitions from smooth to cratered.
Front of teabowl showing the moon-like cratering in the glaze. I had to do a lot of cleanup with a grinder to make the surface smooth enough to use.
Back of chawan with mottled glossy black glaze. Gorgeous variation in this surface.
Kodai of the chawan with spiral detail.
Raku-style bowl. "Dark Side of the Moon". Lots of mixed feelings about this one.
#tea #teaceremony #chawan #matchawan #rakuchawan #raku #sadō #chanoyu #楽 #茶碗 #茶の湯
Front of teabowl with prominent glaze drip.
The foot was carved to be slightly concave, an intentional reference to some of the famous Korean Ido bowls.
Another view of the carved foot.
There are a few glaze defects that will have to be addressed with lacquer and gold, but the end result will be worth the effort.
Teabowl. Black clay with wood ash nuka. Hand formed thick and carved. Thinking about which bowls I want to submit to the KC Clay Guild Teabowl National and this style seems right as it feels like my own. Interested in your thoughts.
#tea #matcha #teabowl #chawan #茶碗 #teaceremony #chanoyu #茶の湯
I hosted a tea ceremony to honor teachers, and then later that night we all went to Butoh at Yume Japanese Gardens. Such a blessing to have this in Tucson.
#chanoyu #teaceremony #butoh
Bowl with very rough exterior. Thrown thick, allowed to dry to leather hard, then cut with a razor and the clay torn away.
Bowl-like-thing. Black clay thrown thick and carved. Tenmoku liner. Wood-salt fired. Looks like a chunk of basalt.
Struggling to call this a teabowl because it would shred a chakin in a nanosecond, but as a sculptural piece, it works well.
#tea #teabowl #chawan #chanoyu #sadō #teaceremony #茶碗 #茶の湯
This is my tea house I build 13 years ago in my backyard in Portland Oregon. We study tea every Thursday there and love it. It is named Masayume True Dream a Dream that later comes true. So grateful to have it and tea practice. #chanoyu #teaceremony #Japaneseteaceremony #Uresenke
This is the tea bowl I bought for this year of the Snake. We love using it in tea class. I love how tea supports life by connecting it to the seasons and the zodiac and zen. #chanoyu #teaceremony #Uresenke #Japaneseteaceremony
Front of chawan.
Simple hand-formed teabowl with a shino-Iike glaze oversaturated with iron and bone ash. Iron is amazing for its range of colors and effects.
#tea #teabowl #chawan #chanoyu #sadō #茶碗
Thursdays we have tea class in my tea house. These are photos of the tokonoma from yesterday. The scroll says Have A Bowl Of Tea. It is about the equanimity of all states of being. The flowers are what is blooming in my garden this time of year. #teaceremony #chanoyu #Urasenke
Shozumi & gozumi keiko today.
I always have a hard time remembering where to start. “There is a rhythmic mnemonic phrase for this,” sensei says.
Hane kan bashi ko kamano-futa…
#chanoyu #shozumi
I just published a new episode to my podcast Books and Bowls. Can a bowl of tea empty your inbox?
Listen on Patreon, Apple Podcasts or Spotify.
#chanoyu #teaceremony #chado
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Front of teabowl showing salmon-pink flashing and blue, grey and green ash deposits.
Interior of chawan showing chadamari and crawling shino glaze. It took me a really long time to be OK with crawling interiors.
Foot of chawan, minimally carved. I use a "pinch and throw" technique on a banding wheel to form this style of bowl, then apply two layers of sanded, contrasting slips to create the texture.
Slip-textured and woodfired teabowl with crawling shino interior. See ALT text for more info!
#chawan #teabowl #teaceremony #chanoyu #sadō #woodfired #woodfiredpottery #pottersofbluesky
Front of chawan showing crawling and finger swipes.
Back of teabowl with larger crawling patterns.
Interior of chawan. Glaze was thinned before applying to the inside to eliminate crawling.
Foot of chawan, roughly carved with a wooden tool.
Mino style teabowl, Shino type. Thrown thick, then shaved. Same glaze inside and out, but with different applications.
#chadō #茶道 #chanoyu #茶の湯 #matchawan #chawan #teabowl #茶碗 #shinoglaze #pottersofbluesky #februarty
Front of teabowl with glaze drips.
Foot of teabowl. Sandy clay creates a rough texture when trimmed.
Interior of teabowl showing chadamari. Sand in the clay creates "suana" (nest holes) in the glaze.
An older aka-shino style bowl. Hand-formed sandy stoneware.
Richly textured glaze with yuzuhada (citrus skin) and suana (nest holes) created by course sand.
#teabowl #chawan #teaceremony #chanoyu #sado #yuzuhada #suana
Front of chawan. This side faced the flame which caused the glaze to run a bit more, lightening the glaze.
Side of chawan showing difference in flame impact on glaze.
Interior of chawan showing chadamari.
Foot of chawan. Trimmed minimally in the style of Hon'ami Kōetsu.
Hand-formed teabowl with iron saturate glaze. Wood fired in the Groundworks Art Lab anagama in 2022. A bit quieter than most. This one remains one of my favorites.
#tea #teabowl #chawan #茶碗 #teaceremony #sadō #茶道 #chanoyu #茶の湯 #woodfiredpottery #pottersofbluesky
