May 16 th was the night of the Lotus Lantern Festival in Seoul so we planned our stay so that we would be in Seoul that night to enjoy i...

Red Shino T 575  5.25” x 2.5”   13.3 cm x 6.4 cm When I created this blog, my intent was to look at chawan by other artists but f...

In a single moment he was dead, a victim of seppuku .  Nothing could have prevented it; not the pleadings of Hideyoshi’s wife and daug...

It is one of history’s incongruities that what have become the greatest teabowls in history, like the Kizaemon Ido and the “P...