Japan has developed a unique Japanese tea drinking culture due to its deep influence from China. Yixing purple sand was imported into Japan from the end of the Edo period (1603~1867), and the famous tea pot was particularly popular.
Around the meiji decade, the pottery Carpe Takasu greatly admired Yixing's handmade film inlay molding skills, so he hired purple sand masters Jin Shiheng and Wu Agen to teach purple sand pot making techniques in Japan. This was the beginning of the introduction of Yixing pot art to Japan, and their works are still treasured in the Tokusatsu Pottery Museum.
▲ Jin Shi Heng Ming Ji Jin Le stone pot
The inscription recounts the situation in which Li Jiang hired Jin Shiheng to teach art
Published in 1867, the book "Tetsuzai Tea Recipes" contains 39 tea sets imported into Japan during the cultural and cultural dynasties, which is the earliest purple sand tea set atlas in Japan. Another volume that is widely known to Chinese purple sand collectors is the 32 tea pots collected by the famous pottery connoisseur Ao Xuanbao, which published the "Catalogue of Tea Pots" in Meiji 4.
Today we come to see shi Dabin, a master of purple sand pottery, who spread the 3 tea pot heavy tools in Japan and once again felt the charm of the pot.
1. Tall cylinder pot
This pot style is graceful and majestic, and the craftsmanship is exquisite and condensed. Green lime sand is the main tire, mixed with yellow-brown, black sand, sand grains hub wrinkle looming, ancient pale and quiet. The bottom of the pot is engraved with a steel knife in the inscription "Da Bin".
Just as Zhou Gaoqi's "Yang Envy Tea Pot System" contains: "The earth color of the pot, since the spring is provided for the spring, in time for the early years of Dabin, all the fine soil is light ink color, there are silver sand flashes on it, the sand and the system, the hub wrinkles around the body, the beads are hidden, and it is more self-dazzling." ”
In the early years, this pot was hidden by a nobleman in Dongying, the pot body was full of pulp, only at the front of the spout and the handle of the pot exposed the original tire, which is very different from the pulp pattern of Taiwan or mainland transmission, it can be known that this pot is a long-term offering, the "Tang" famous vessel in the Japanese Sencha ceremony.
2. The large round pot used by the Hidden Yuan Zen Master
This pot is plump and towering, the pulp is lustrous, the inlay lid is tightly sewn, and if the whole instrument is made in one go, the temperament is extraordinary, which is a rare masterpiece in the large pot. The pot body inscription "Tea is ripe and fragrant, guests are happy, and when Dabin is antique".
Yinyuan Zen master (1592~1673), commonly known as Lin, name Longqi, character Zeng Hao. In 1654, at the invitation of the Tang Temple in Nagasaki, Japan, the Hidden Zen Master dongdu Hongfa and the Hokke Zen Temple in Kyoto's Huangbei Mountain Wererberi were opened to form the Huang Barberry Sect. It is another large-scale cultural exchange activity between the Chinese and Japanese religious circles since the Jian Zhen Dongdu.
On April 3, 12012, the 82-year-old Yin yuanyuan passed away in The Yellow Barberry Mountain in Kyoto. The objects related to it have been completely preserved, such as the canes, chairs, whisks, teapots, etc. used.
▲ Hidden Yuan Longqi Zen Master
▲ Gao Zhenyu imitates Dabin large round pot height 16cm
Xu Xiutang engraved the poems of the Hidden Yuan Zen Master
Inscription:
In front of the door is a desolate land, specially removed From Ping, only the true seeds of Zhao Zhou are planted, in order to become the old family voice of Huang Barberry, the clouds come to a happy eye, the words are gathered through the temperament, the taste of tea is immeasurable, and it is heart-warming.
Gengyin Qiuyue, recorded the sage Yinyuan Zen master plant tea Yu Yuki poems by Zhenyu made a large pot, Xiutang book carving.
▲ Hidden Yuan Zen master calligraphy
The two purple sand pots used by the Hidden Yuan Zen teacher before were the ones he carried when he crossed the east. One of them is this large round pot of the big bin style, and the other is an olive-shaped sand pot, which is in the collection of Manfuku-ji Temple in Kyoto, Japan.
▲ Another olive-shaped sand pot used by the Hidden Yuan Zen Master
3. Vermilion flat round pot
The color of this pot is clear red, the sand grains are looming, and the brilliance is intrinsic. The body of the pot is flat but not collapsed, the mouth of the pot raises a circle of lip line, the flat arc lid is embedded in it, the circle button is necked, the DC circle handle, the bottom foot circle line echoes with the lip line of the pot mouth, and the whole device is simple and generous.
This pot was used by Tian Nuo Tsutomu (1814~1907), who was the son-in-law of the famous painter Tian Neng Tsutomu (1777-1835).
Weng and his son-in-law are not only good at poetry and painting, but also influential figures in the history of Japanese tea culture, and have made commendable contributions to the promotion of Sencha culture.
▲The original box lid inscription "Straight into the Yuan (Dao) people love to play"
▲Tinomura Naoiro Old Shadow