The Book of Ichigo Ichie by Héctor García & Francesc Miralles

Author:Héctor García & Francesc Miralles
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Published: 2019-12-30T16:00:00+00:00

Raku and Kintsugi

In the sixteenth century, the tea master Sen no Rikyū revolutionized the design of the tea ceremony room, reducing it to just two tatami mats, and he was also a great connoisseur of the ritual’s different utensils, which in those days were almost always imported from China.

Drawing on his knowledge, Rikyū decided to create a new kind of teacup, called a raku. With the help of his friend Tanaka Chōjirō, he designed one that was even more straightforward than the Chinese ones, whose beauty lay in their simplicity.

Rikyū’s tearoom and the creation of the raku style laid the foundations of what we now consider the Japanese aesthetic.

We can trace back to the same period another key concept of this aesthetic, with profound significance for the human soul: kintsugi. Also known as kintsukuroi, kintsugi is the Japanese art of repairing ceramics with a mixture of lacquer and powdered gold.

Kintsugi, in Japanese, is written like this: 金継ぎ

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