The exhibition of Tea utensils collection ( The Gotoh Museum)

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Gotoh Museum in Kaminoge, Tokyo. Assortment of tea utensils Exhibition New Year. Just, sometimes a movie on the theme of Sen no Rikyu has been published, exhibited Rikyu Yukari in many cases.

The letters Takeno Jyohou (the teacher Sen no Rikyu), Sen no Rikyu, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, were exhibited all together.

The letter of Hideyoshi, day-to-day addressed to the legal wife or concubine in many cases. To witness the person who had the ambition of trying to conquer the Ming and had made ​​a full-blown consideration is given to women, I remember a strange feeling indeed.

Ogura colored paper of Fujiwara Teika. In order to finish the colored paper of Ogura Hyakunin , Teika is , is considered a colored paper that was written test . While facile pen , It is written in easy-to-understand, even from a layman's point of view , most characters can be read .

The poem card game , such as colored paper 's speak for themselves , the certainty of an episode of establishment from a person , that was commissioned as an introduction to the man who does not know the waka .

The number of bowl of Tobutsu people . Masterpieces eminent Inaba ocean , Ankokuji , Hon'noji , such as Rikyu sitting in a circle , are arranged . Both works made ​​in the Southern Song Dynasty in the 13th century . Perhaps , merchants who beginning with Sen no Rikyu is , might have been ordered from the country at the time of the Ming , such a tea set .

As specialty crack , fragments of dyed fabrics in the past , was summarized in Tekagami for writing it is , specialty cleft can. Tekagami some were on display , but none , calico of China and India almost . They might have been used and crape of tea utensils , a bag of tea container .

And say tea ceremony, impression pure Japanese is strong, but rather, it was something to bring to Japan the culture of China, that was arranged in Japanese style in its formation period.

Among the collections of Gotoh Museum, one of my most favorite, old Iga Mizuyubi, breakage. While jug surface is broken, and is about to come broken, because it looks like a bag tears it, it is called so.

Letter Furuta Oribe, tea master wrote the future, and, would not make water more than this finger is made is left.

Such as those felt in the skin, the atmosphere of the times that went just made​​, following the tradition of tea ceremony today was the exhibition very interesting.