In recent years, Japanese tea sets are being admired by more and more domestic collectors, and their value is also increasing day by day. Many people do not understand why this situation occurs, so today let's take a closer look at the Japanese tea set and see what its collection value is.
The Japanese term "tea props" originated in the mid-to-late Muromachi period and was accompanied by the term "tea ceremony". The Japanese tea ceremony believes that drinking tea is a simple thing, and its tea props are like dating and life, without a gorgeous appearance, but with exquisite and low-key careful craftsmanship. Among them: pots, stoves, water fingers, jianshui, lids, water bamboo, tea five virtues, tea pots, pots, tea saucers, tea into, tea bowls, tea knives, tea incense burners, flower arrangements, etc., each device is exquisite to the extreme, and it is a good product for the collectors to collect and appreciate.
Among the exquisite Japanese tea props, the gold, silver and iron teapots combine function, aesthetics and collectibility, which can be called a tea ceremony heavy instrument and a good collection. A good old Japanese pot with a perfect set of sculpture, painting, calligraphy, and mosaic craftsmanship.
The material of the old Japanese pot is generally cast with pig iron, but most of the iron pot lid is copper, because the iron lid of the pot is easier to rust after steam fumigation of boiling water, and the early pot lid material has a lid made of seven kinds of metal casting, commonly known as "Seven Treasure Copper Cover", this copper cover looks like copper, brass and other color of several non-ferrous metals, and some also have a concave and convex texture is very beautiful. The lid of the iron pot is very exquisite, a good pot must be the original pot with the original lid, especially the lid of the famous kettle master, which is perfectly combined with the pot body and is integrated.
There are also many silver pots, copper pots, and even more exquisite pure gold pots in the Japanese tea ceremony. Silver pots and gold pots themselves are made of precious metals, especially pure gold pots use up to several hundred grams of gold per pot, and they are all hand-forged, and the labor time is also very long, often more than a month. Such extravagant utensils must be used by the aristocratic class, and now they are becoming a fine collection and appreciation.
China's Tang and Song Dynasties are mostly made of gold, silver, copper, iron and other metal utensils, and the dignitaries and dignitaries even advocate "gold and silver as superior", such intricate and exquisite tea utensils, which leads the development of China's tea culture to the peak.
The Japanese tea ceremony believes that drinking tea starts from the water source, because the use of gold, silver, iron pot boiled water, the taste is more round, sweet, can effectively enhance the taste of tea, very suitable for brewing a variety of tea drinks. Among them, the water of the iron pot is thick and smooth, and the charm is mellow; The water of the silver pot is sweet and delicate, and the aroma is light; The water of the golden pot strikes an excellent balance between the rhyme and aroma of the throat. Therefore, the Japanese tea props have well retained the water boiling devices in the Chinese Tang and Song tea props - gold, silver, iron teapots, and carried forward.
Japanese tea props, represented by gold and silver pots, have attracted the attention of collectors in recent years with their sophisticated craftsmanship and historical heritage inherited from the same lineage of oriental culture. Especially with the increase of tea culture lovers, and the decrease in the production of gold and silver pots in Japan, the shortage of national treasure-level axe masters, the sharp decline in the amount of fine products, and the situation that "good pots are difficult to find".
Collecting old Japanese pots, "don numbers" and the kettle master in the hall mouth are inseparable core contents, especially the famous kettle master. The so-called "Tang" number is equivalent to today's workshop or company, the owner of the church is equivalent to the chairman of today's company, and the famous kettle master is equivalent to the famous artist of our Purple Sand Pot in China. There are more than 100 old iron pots in Japan, especially in the Kyoto area. For example, Longwen Hall, Guiwen Hall, Golden Dragon Hall, Jinshou Hall, Guangyu Hall, Xiangyun Hall, Qingshou Hall, Jingjin Hall, Huyan Hall, Songrong Hall, Yunse Hall, Baoshou Hall and so on. Famous kettle masters include Kuroku, Nakagawa Juneyoshi, Shinyo Shizuyoshi, and Ishiguro Mitsunan.
At present, there are many kettle masters who are widely discussed, such as Annosuke of Ryubundo, Hatano Masahira of Kamebundo, Munobei of Kaneshoudo, Minosuke Wada of Unseido, and Sato Tsuki of Hikarudo. In addition, the Tibetan Six Kettle Master did not create his own iron pot hall number, and the pots he later saw him make generally had chapters such as "Zang Liu Ju Zao", "Zang Liu II", "Iii", "IV", "Zang Liu Zao" and so on, which may be related to his being summoned by the emperor to be the court royal kettle master.