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New Year Exhibition:
Poetry of Raku Ware
Saturday 6 January – Sunday 21 April 2024

In the world of chanoyu, the tea ceremony, numerous tea utensils bear names quoted from seasonal verses from waka poetry and lines from classical Chinese poems, embodying them to enhance the allure of a tea bowl or a tea implement.
For instance, a poem by Fujiwara Teika goes: Looking around, there are neither spring blossoms nor autumn leaves; just the evening haze at the bare hut by the autumn shore.
While Fujiwara Ietaka’s poem goes: To those who wait only for cherry blossoms to bloom; I would like to show the spring revealed by young grass, emerging from the residual snow of the mountain village.
These two poems are said to express the essence of wabi-cha, wabi way of tea, the aesthetic of simplicity and modesty cherished in the tea ceremony.
Similarly, Raku tea bowls have also been named after excerpts from waka poetry and classical Chinese poems, which lends a deeper sense of poetic resonance to the distinctive warmth of clay, the softness of the glazes applied and the composed feel of the shape of a bowl.
This exhibition showcases tea utensils that bear names and motifs associated with the seasonal verses found in waka poetry and classical Chinese poems.
We invite you to explore the elegant and subtle aesthetics shared by waka poetry and chanoyu, the way of tea.


Closed: Mondays except National Holidays
Opening Hours: 10:00 – 16:30 (last admission 16:00)
*advance reservations NOT required
Admission: Adults ¥1,000
University Students ¥800, High School Students ¥500
Juniour high school and under free admission
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