Pinch Pots

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Pinch Pots Tea Bowls
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Clay VocabularyPinch

• Pinch
• Forming a pot by pinching with the fingers and
  the thumb

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Clay VocabularyTypes of clay

• Stoneware
• High fire clay. Fires at 2400
• Earthenware
• Low fire clay. Fires at 1800

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Clay VocabularyBody of a Pot

• Lip / Rim
• The top edge of a pot
• Foot
• The bottom of a pot

lip
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Clay Vocabulary

• Slip
• Clay Water Clay glue
• Liquid Clay
• Score Slip
• Roughing up the clay and adding slip
• For attaching clay together

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Clay Vocabulary

• Texture
• The look and feel of an object

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Clay VocabularyStages of Drying

• Leather Hard
• 1st stage of drying
• Clay is cold, stiff, and leathery
• Greenware
• Completely dry pottery (bone dry)

Greenware
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Clay VocabularyFiring

• Kiln
• An oven which fires clay
• Bisque ware
• Fired, unglazed pottery
• Glaze
• Glass-former, applied to pottery
• Glaze ware

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Tea Bowl VocabularyJapan

• Wabi Sabi
• The beauty of things imperfect, impermanent,
  incomplete
• Tea Ceremony
• Chanoyu
• Ritualized way of serving tea

A wood-carving made by Japanese artist Toshikata
Mizuno (1866-1903)depicting a tea ceremony
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Japanese Tea Cermony
Chanoyu
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Aesthetics

• Aesthetics
• Value and beauty as they relate to the arts
• Japanese Aesthetics
• Affected by the Chinese and Buddhism
• Value of harmony in all things
• Nature-based, concerned with the beauty of
  simplicity and harmony with nature
• Wabi-Sabi
• Beauty of simplicity and harmony

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Wabi-Sabi

• Wabi-Sabi
• Beauty of things
• Imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete
• Modest and humble
• Unconventional
• Characteristics of wabi-sabi
• Suggestion of natural process, irregular,
  intimate, unpretentious, earthy, simple
• Correlates with concepts of Zen Buddhism

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Japanese Tea CeremonyChanoyu

• Chanoyu
• Serving of tea, ritualized over time
• Symbolizes simplicity and represent the Zen
  principles of
• harmony, respect, purity, and tranquility.

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Tea Facts

• Tea was first used in Asia (13th c.)
• Its green before it is processed
• Called Matcha
• Tea began as a medicine grew into a drink
• Buddhist monks used it to stay awake during hours
  of meditation
• Europeans discovered tea from Asia. 16th c.

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The Tea Ceremony

• Ceremony is usually a gathering of 4 guests
• A break from daily stress
• The guests pass through a small garden
• Enter a quite shaded place while waiting to be
  called on by the host
• Host will sound a gong. The garden path is
  called Roji

Path of stepping stones in Korakuen garden in
Okayama
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Roji - a dewy path The roji is a way apart from
this bustling world and its many cares.
How will the path sweep away the dust
from within out hearts? Namboroku, a poem
ascribed to a tea master Sen no Rikyu (1522-1591)
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Entering the Tearoom

• To enter the tearoom, guests must
• Remove their shoes
• Clean their hands and mouth with water
• Pass through a small opening (3 ft. high)

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Inside the Tearoom

• The tearoom is
• Kept empty
• Empty space is beautiful and valued
• Inside there is an alter to house scroll painting
  and a flower arrangement

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The Tea bowl

• Often Raku bowls with a foot are used
• Irregular in shape and texture (wabiSabi)
• Handbuilt
• Have own personal character
• Designed to fit the hand well

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The Tea CeremonyChanoyu

• The tea ceremony is an art form
• Prepared by a tea master
• Takes 20 years to become a tea master
• Every move before, during, and after the ceremony
  has rules
• The ceremony teaches
• Harmony with the universe,
• and tranquility

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Shapes and Feet of Tea Bowls
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Tea bowls
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Credits

• Created by Jerilynn Packer
• Sources
• Tea Ceremony in Japan www.coolskool.net/japan/tea_
  ceremony.htm
• Tea Bowl Imperfect Harmony Article from
  Greater Lafayette Museum
• Japanese Aesthetics, Wabi-Sabi, and the Tea
  Ceremony
• Holy Mountain trading Co. The tea ceremony.
  www.holymtn.com