* I'm writing this entry for an art show in Italy. My third hand-painted works for the show are tea bowls for traditional Japanese tea ceremony. Since I'm asking my Italian friend, Simo, to help me out, you see both English and Italian.
While Italy has a rich coffee culture, Japan is known for its tea. Our tea culture has a long history, adopted from China, and by around 750 AD, it was already well established. Tea had belonged to upper class people such as emperors and shoguns (samurai leaders) for a long time. The tea bowls are called "matchawan" in Japanese, and all are made from ceramics. In ancient times, ceramic matchawan was considered highly valuable , which led to the invention of the kintsugi technique for repairing broken ones. Some of these repaired bowls, with their beautiful kintsugi, can still be seen museums today.
The bawls I took here have different sizes: a smaller one, called "nodate", for outdoor use , and a larger one for use in a tea house.
Mentre l'Italia è rinomata per la sua cultura del caffè, il Giappone è famoso per il tè. La nostra cultura del tè ha una lunga storia, portata originariamente dalla Cina, e intorno al 750 d.C. era già ben consolidata. Per molto tempo, il tè era riservato alle classi superiori, come imperatori e shogun (leader samurai). Le ciotole usate per il tè, conosciute in giapponese come "matchawan", sono tutte realizzate in ceramica. Nell'antichità, i matchawan in ceramica erano considerati molto preziosi, il che ha portato all'invenzione della tecnica del kintsugi per riparare quelli rotti. Alcune di queste ciotole riparate, con i loro splendidi kintsugi, possono ancora essere viste nei musei oggi.Le ciotole che ho portato qui sono di dimensioni diverse: una più piccola, chiamata "nodate", per l'uso all'aperto, e una più grande per l'uso in una sala da tè.
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Simo ( @Simone-) I know you are busy, so if you don't have enough time, I totally understand. Please don't rush for me.
Do you use them in your daily life too? (I hope my question isn't too weird)
Hi, @Zobayda . Thank you for the comment and I'm sorry for the delay. I had been off for two weeks due to my trip. Your question doesn't sound weird at all. We don't use it regularly but use it for the traditional tea ceremony.
Hi, Yumi! Hope you had a great time there.
Thank you! Yes, I had a wonderful time there and will write about it soon!