Event
New Year Exhibition: Selected Works of Raku Generations
Zodiac Calender – Animals of the New Year: Auspicious Symbols in
Everyday Scenery and Poetic Narratives
January 7, 2014 (fri) – March 2, 2014 (mon)
Admission: Adults: 800yen
Students (university): 600yen
Students (high school): 300yen
Junior high school students and under :free
http://www.raku-yaki.or.jp/e/museum/exhibition/index.html
Venue
Raku Museum
http://www.raku-yaki.or.jp/e/
Access: 84 Aburanokôji Nakadachi-uri agaru, Kamigyo-ku, Kyoto,
602-0923, Japan
Tel: 075-414-0304
Hours: 10：00 ~ 16：30
（entry up to 30 minutes before closing.）
Closed: Monday (Open: if the Monday is a national holiday)
Description
In the tea ceremony the animal motif has been given an importance as a means to form or decorate tea utensils. It works sometimes as a casual representation of everyday scenery and often more as an auspicious symbol of the New Year in the 12 Zodiac calendar as well as a subject told in poetic narratives.
This exhibition features various tea utensils, such as incense containers and burners, flower vases, dishes and containers to be used in the Kaiseki meal, not to speak of tea bowls, produced by Raku generation all associated with the New Year Zodiac animal.
