Event
Summer Exhibition – What is Raku? Tea Bowls – Texture – Warmth
Jul 6, 2019 (sat) – Aug 18, 2019(sun)
Hours: 10：00 ~ 16：30（entry up to 30 minutes before closing.）
Closed: Monday (Open: if the Monday is a national holiday)
Admission:
Adults ¥900
University Students ¥700
High School Students ¥400
Under Juniour High School free admission
Venue
Raku Museum
http://www.raku-yaki.or.jp/e/
Access:Aburanokôji-dôri Ichijô sagaru Kamigyo-ku Kyoto 602-0923
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
Rugged, Gritty
Rough, Smooth
Tea bowl is endowed with various textural feels.
When warmed with hot water, the clay gets slightly moistened.
Your hands touch the surface of a bowl, which bears the warmth of a body temperature.
Your lip touches the surface of the bowl, when the fragrance of green matcha tea gently enters through your body.
A bowl of tea is whisked just for you.
A subtle warmth of tea fills your mind and body.
Softness of the clay still lingers in touching a Raku tea bowl, which is hand-built without a use of the potter’s wheel.
It maintains a tender warmth of human hands because of this.
Raku-yaki. The unique tradition was founded by Raku Chōjirō.
Rikyū’s wabicha philosophy lies underneath Raku wares throughout as a guiding principle.
This exhibition showcases various faces of a Raku tea bowl explored through characteristic textural feels, such as rugged, gritty, rough and smooth, and experience the warmth of the surface of a typical Raku tea bowl.
