Cone 6 Test Tiles alisaclausen. The State Hermitage Museum: Digital Collection. Tenmoku Ceramics : un album. Tenmoku Teabowls. If you ever visit the Kyoto National Museum, look for teabowls in Room 3 and 4 (Ceramics), on the 1st Floor of the New Exhibition Hall.
In Japanese, the word for bowl is chawan, and most Japanese people use chawan every day to eat rice. The word chawan, however, does not mean "rice bowl," but "teabowl. " This is because such bowls were originally used, not for rice, but for tea! We do not know exactly when the custom of drinking tea came to Japan, but an early book called the Nihon Koki says that a priest named Eichu made tea for the Saga Emperor, telling us that tea had already come to Japan by the beginning of the Heian Period (794-1185). At that time, however, tea was not drunk by all Japanese alike. Copper Red / Shino Pots. Shino Pots : un album. Celadon. Oil Spot Glazes.