A Japanese tea bowl, circa 1930. “Tea Culture of Japan: ‘Chanoyu’ Past and Present” at the Yale University Art Gallery aims to evoke the look and spirit of an intricately choreographed social convention, the formal serving of tea, that is also the embodiment of religious philosophy and a national culture.
Photo: Collection of Peggy and Richard M. Danziger
A Korean stoneware tea bowl, from the 15th -16th century. The curator, Sadako Ohki, working with Yale students, hits all these tangents with superb economy.
Photo: Collection of Peggy and Richard M. Danziger
An 18th-century Japanese robe made of compound twill and brocaded silk. Using objects from the museum’s collection, Ms. Ohki maps out a history of the tea tradition, or Chanoyu, in a few broad strokes.
Photo: Yale University Art Gallery
A sake pourer made of cast-iron and porcelain from 17th-century Japan. We see it move from competitive flamboyance, embodied in a flower-spattered folding screen, to the zen-inspired simplicity of rough-and-tumble ceramic bowls, to 21st-century practices that bring digital animated views of nature to classic tea room décor.
Photo: Collection of Peggy and Richard M. Danziger
An 18th-century bamboo tea scoop designed by Daishin Gitō. The show includes some highly charismatic items, among them a bamboo tea scoop carved by Sen no Rikyu, the 16th-century tea master who codified the “wabi” aesthetic of restraint and imperfection that for many still defines Japaneseness.
Photo: Collection of Peggy and Richard M. Danziger
A flower container from the Momoyama period, made of bamboo with gold lacquer repair and metal pins. And there is a touch of theater, appropriate to a study of what is, after all, a species of performance art. At the very center of the gallery sits a stage-like portable tea room that will see active use during the run of the show.
Photo: Collection of Peggy and Richard M. Danziger
A kettle lid rest from the Edo period. The result is a kind of exhibition-as-essay too rarely encountered even in mid-sized public museums, but regularly produced in schools, where intellectual adventure is privileged over box-office appeal.
Photo: Collection of Peggy and Richard M. Danziger
@VIA: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/02/20/arts/20090220-TEA_index.html
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