silence of kansai

SILENCE OFKANSAI

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关西SILENCE OFKANSAI

Zhu Hai 朱 海

All images taken in Kansai

ⓒ2010 for all photography: Zhu Haiⓒ2010 for all photography: Memo Vision Studio

这次是我第四此去日本，日本朋友送了个茶壶和一灌绿茶，茶壶材质粗砺有点硌手，难比紫砂的精致

细腻，绿茶虽新鲜但碎不成形，难比龙井，猴葵雅致，虽说难以示人，但心生更多的不解。

某日，田中一光先生给了我解释，在他的一篇日本人的审美观的杂文中讲到一个吃饭喝汤用的朝鲜手

作，被用于茶道，出乎意料地升格为名品。他认为这是日本人特有的审美特征，“把一个既没有花纹

也没有颜色的普通的碗放在手心里，重新认识它的不同寻常，品味它的颜色，体会它的触感，鉴赏它

那毫无特别之处。”

It was my fourth time to go to Japan. One of my Japanese friends gave me a teapot and a

tin of green tea for souvenirs. The material of teapot is a bit rough, hardly compared with

red stoneware for its fineness; the green tea is fresh and shapeless, hardly compared wih

Longjing and Houkui for their elegance; so it’s hard to show them off, but I have more

doubts.

Oneday, Mr. Ikko Tanaka explained to me in his essay about Japanese aesthetics, he said

that a Korean object which was just for daily uses was used for sado, unexpectedly being

an handicraft of high culture. He thought that it was a special aesthetic character of

Japanese, “putting an ordinary bowl without patterns and color in the palm, rethinking its

uniqueness, tasting its color, realizing its touch, appreciating its extreme ordinariness.”

Editor: Zhu HaiLayout Artist: KenEmail: zhuhaihaihai@hotmail.com