The Japanese Tea Ceremony

“It is essentially a worship of the imperfect, as it is a tender attempt to accomplish something possible in this impossible thing we know as life.” (Okakura, 2006)

This is an interpretation of the Japanese tea ceremony by Okakura Tenshin. It had a profound effect on the concept of Japanese ceramics. Setting an ideal and approaching it is meaningful, and I think it is the principal approach to society by a ceramist. I also focus on that tea masters set their ideal space and tools into compact size. In my study, I will explore ideal shape and materiality into compact size just like tea masters.

     
Reference       Okakura, T. (2006) THE BOOK OF TEA Tokyo: Kodansha Ltd.