With the spread of Chinese tea drinking culture and tea props, at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty (1259 AD), Zen master Akiaki Nanpu of Japan exchanged the temple's tea feast ceremony at Jingshan Temple in Yuhang County, Zhejiang Province, China, and introduced the Chinese tea ceremony to Japan for the first time. Since then, the Japanese have combined their own cultural characteristics to develop it into a local Japanese tea culture. If it is said that the tea culture of today's China lies in tea tasting, then the Japanese tea ceremony has well absorbed and inherited the legacy of the Chinese Tang and Song tea ceremonies, and has well preserved the characteristics of the Tang and Song tea drinking culture focusing on the carrier of tea, which can be called an aesthetic religion.
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, which is a good product for the collectors to collect and appreciate, and it is also a powerful witness to the exchange of tea culture between China and Japan.
Among the exquisite Japanese tea props, gold, silver and iron teapots integrate function, aesthetics and collectibility, which can be called tea ceremony heavy tools and collection products, and in the past two years, they are being admired by more and more collectors, and their value is also increasing day by day.
A good old Japanese pot with a perfect set of sculpture, painting, calligraphy, and mosaic craftsmanship. Due to the deep-rooted influence of Chinese culture, there are shadows of Chinese calligraphy painting and tea culture in many old Japanese iron pots, and many old pots are cast with Chinese character poems or Chinese character quotes. The patterns on the bodies of many iron pots that express the theme of landscapes, flowers and birds are like Chinese paintings that use relief forms to reflect interpretation. The hall number and the kettle master logo on the body or lid of the pot are also used in Chinese characters.
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 car, commonly known as "Seven Treasure Copper Cover", this copper cover looks like copper, brass and several other non-ferrous metal colors, 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. Therefore, in the old Japanese iron pot, the pots and lids of each pot master have their own unique styles. In particular, the knobs on the lid are even more ingenious, flowers, birds, fish, insects, dragons, turtles, snakes, beasts; plums, orchids, bamboo, chrysanthemums, pine cones, etc. are all used. The button seat of the lid is also ingenious and varied. 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 water boiled in gold, silver and iron pots contains divalent iron ions, so there will be a mountain spring water effect, the taste is more round, sweet, can effectively enhance the taste of tea, very suitable for brewing all kinds of tea. 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; and the water of the golden pot achieves an excellent balance between the throat rhyme and the aroma. 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.
The history of The old iron pot in Japan lasted for three or four hundred years, experienced the war and economic revival of Japan, every hall name that can leave a name in history, there must be several successful kettle masters behind them, relying on their exquisite craftsmanship, leaving an iron pot for each hall number. There is a small story behind each pot, which is not only a historical record, but also represents the state of mind of the kettle master. Appreciate the skill and delicacy of the kettle master from the knot and the way of the pot body. From every small detail, we can taste the state of mind when the kettle master creates, as if representing the kettle master to talk to us through time and space. If you look closely, you will be able to explore the thousand words in the pot.
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 decline in the production of Gold and Silver Pots in Japan, the shortage of national treasure-level axe masters, and the sharp decline in the amount of fine products, there has been a situation where "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.
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