Rick Mahaffey on sat 22 mar 03
Mel,
I agree that few things are sacred, but if we miss name things we will
not be able to communicate and be doomed miss-understanding everything.
By the way, I have seen a White Temmoku glaze in Japan. As I mentioned
Temmoku is a shape as well as a glaze. The shape is the bowl that the
Chinese Temmoku glazes were originally put on. It is that conical rice
bowl shape of the peasant ware that is so revered and prized by Tea
Masters. I was told this by a potter who apprenticed to Shimizu Uichi
and was Shimizu's personal apprentice.
Rick Mahaffey
Lee Love on mon 24 mar 03
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From: "Rick Mahaffey"
> By the way, I have seen a White Temmoku glaze in Japan.
Unlike Shino, the word Temmoku is not related to color. This is from
Rhodes glossary:
"The name temmoku comes from Tien-mu-Shan, "Mountain of the Eye of Heaven,"
a mountain in Chechiang province, China. It was from a monastery on this
mountain that Dogen, a Japanese Zen priest, was said to have brought the first
temmoku bowl to Japan in 1228."
page: 309
My studies Soto Zen brought me to pottery. Dogen Zenji founded
the Soto school.
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Lee In Mashiko Ikiru@hachiko.com
"First we must overcome the inhibitions of our Western civilization
that cause us to feel knowledge by touch is immature, primitive, and even
illegal. Among many other peoples the hand is a live instrument of experience,
used in daily life to hold, lift, grip and explore. As a tool for living, it
becomes a tool for knowing."
~~ Warren MacKenzie ~~
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