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Chakin
''Chakin'' (Japanese: 茶巾 "tea towel") is a small rectangular cloth used to wipe teabowls called ''chawan''. It is a part of Japanese tea utensils. It is also used in ''Senchadō''. White linen is often used, or hemp cloth. The high-quality bleached hemp cloth ''Narazarashi'' (奈良晒) from Nara Prefecture is historically especially esteemed. The size varies depending on the application and style, but it is often a rectangle of about 1 ''shaku'' (尺) x 5 ''sun'' (寸) (30.3 x 15.2cm). The edges lengthwise have a narrow rolled hem finished with overlock stitching. These two hems face opposite sides of the cloth. The ''chakin'' is folded in a specific manner and placed, when not used, into a small vessel or cylinder that is called ''kintō ''Kintō'' (Japanese: 巾筒) is a small tube or vessel used to store a ''chakin'' cloth during the serving of tea. It is a part of Japanese tea utensils. The container is most often ceramic, but can also be made out of metal, lacquerw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Japanese Tea Utensils
are the tools and utensils used in , the art of Japanese tea. Tea utensils can be divided into five major categories: * * * * * A wide range of utensils, known collectively as , is necessary for even the most basic tea ceremony. Generally, items which guests prepare themselves with for attending a gathering are not considered ; rather, the term fundamentally applies to items involved to "host" a gathering. This article, however, includes all forms of implements and paraphernalia involved in the practice of . Utensils used for are different, using a usually five-piece set of small cups, a small pot and a small cup to pour hot water. These utensils are typically ceramic. Boxes In Japan, cherished items are customarily stored in purpose-made wooden boxes. Valuable items for tea ceremony are usually stored in such a box, and in some cases, if the item has a long and distinguished history, several layers of boxes: an inner storage box (), middle storage box (), and outer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kintō
''Kintō'' (Japanese: 巾筒) is a small tube or vessel used to store a ''chakin'' cloth during the serving of tea. It is a part of Japanese tea utensils. The container is most often ceramic, but can also be made out of metal, lacquerware, or carved stone. The ''chakin'' cloth is folded in a specific manner and then placed into the ''kintō''. Some schools of ''Senchadō is a Japanese variant of ''chadō'' ("way of tea"). It involves the preparation and drinking of '' sencha'' green tea, especially the high grade '' gyokuro'' type. History Towards the end of the 17th century in the Edo period, Chinese merc ...'' also use two-tiered stacked containers. In the case of sencha, a slightly larger cloth is used separately for wiping the tray. References * * * {{Google books, i-cMPQAACAAJ, 煎茶の心得: 文字が大きく読みやすい, pages=172, keywords=, text=, plainurl= Japanese tea utensils ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chawan
A ''chawan'' (; literally "tea bowl") is a bowl used for preparing and drinking tea. Many types of ''chawan'' are used in East Asian tea ceremonies. The choice of their use depends upon many considerations. History The ''chawan'' originated in China. The earliest ''chawan'' in Japan were imported from China between the 13th and the 16th centuries. The ''Jian chawan'', a Chinese tea bowl known as ''Tenmoku chawan'' in Japan, was the preferred tea bowl for the Japanese tea ceremony until the 16th century. In Japan, tea was also mainly drunk from this Chinese variety of tea bowls until about the 15th century. The Japanese term ''tenmoku'' is derived from the name of the Tianmu Mountain, where Japanese priests acquired these tea bowls from Chinese temples to bring back to Japan, according to tradition. An 11th-century resident of Fujian wrote about the Jian tea wares: : By the end of the Kamakura period (1185–1333), as the custom of tea drinking spread throughout Japan and th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Senchadō
is a Japanese variant of ''chadō'' ("way of tea"). It involves the preparation and drinking of ''sencha'' green tea, especially the high grade ''gyokuro'' type. History Towards the end of the 17th century in the Edo period, Chinese merchants visiting Nagasaki showed how brewed tea should be drunk, as practised in the Ming dynasty court. This practise of the Chinese tea culture spread in the 18th century until the beginning of the Meiji era, particularly among literati merchants, in the form of friends meeting in a less formal atmosphere than the ''chanoyu''. Appreciation of painting and literacy objects then took on particular importance. These meetings, often followed by genuine meals, were the opportunity to admire the host's collections, most often composed of objects imported from China or made in Japan in Chinese style called ''karamono''. In difference to the preparation of ''matcha'' tea, which is powdered, ''sencha'' is prepared using small leaf tea. Similarly to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Linen
Linen () is a textile made from the fibers of the flax plant. Linen is very strong, absorbent, and dries faster than cotton. Because of these properties, linen is comfortable to wear in hot weather and is valued for use in garments. It also has other distinctive characteristics, notably its tendency to wrinkle. Linen textiles appear to be some of the oldest in the world; their history goes back many thousands of years. Dyed flax fibers found in a cave in Southeastern Europe (present-day Georgia) suggest the use of woven linen fabrics from wild flax may date back over 30,000 years. Linen was used in ancient civilizations including Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, and linen is mentioned in the Bible. In the 18th century and beyond, the linen industry was important in the economies of several countries in Europe as well as the American colonies. Textiles in a linen weave texture, even when made of cotton, hemp, or other non-flax fibers, are also loosely referred to as "linen". ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hemp
Hemp, or industrial hemp, is a botanical class of ''Cannabis sativa'' cultivars grown specifically for industrial or medicinal use. It can be used to make a wide range of products. Along with bamboo, hemp is among the fastest growing plants on Earth. It was also one of the first plants to be spun into usable fiber 50,000 years ago. It can be refined into a variety of commercial items, including paper, rope, textiles, clothing, biodegradable plastics, paint, insulation, biofuel, food, and animal feed. Although chemotype I cannabis and hemp (types II, III, IV, V) are both ''Cannabis sativa'' and contain the psychoactive component tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), they represent distinct cultivar groups, typically with unique phytochemical compositions and uses. Hemp typically has lower concentrations of total THC and may have higher concentrations of cannabidiol (CBD), which potentially mitigates the psychoactive effects of THC. The legality of hemp varies widely among countrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nara Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Nara Prefecture has a population of 1,321,805 and has a geographic area of . Nara Prefecture borders Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Osaka Prefecture to the northwest, Wakayama Prefecture to the southwest, and Mie Prefecture to the east. Nara is the capital and largest city of Nara Prefecture, with other major cities including Kashihara, Ikoma, and Yamatokōriyama. Nara Prefecture is located in the center of the Kii Peninsula on Japan's Pacific Ocean coast, and is one of only eight landlocked prefectures. Nara Prefecture has the distinction of having more UNESCO World Heritage listings than any other prefecture in Japan. History Nara Prefecture region is considered one of the oldest regions in Japan, having been in existence for thousands of years, and is widely viewed as the Japanese cradle of civilization. Like Kyoto, Nara was one of Imperial Japan's earliest capital cities. The current form of Nara Prefec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rectangle
In Euclidean plane geometry, a rectangle is a quadrilateral with four right angles. It can also be defined as: an equiangular quadrilateral, since equiangular means that all of its angles are equal (360°/4 = 90°); or a parallelogram containing a right angle. A rectangle with four sides of equal length is a ''square''. The term "oblong" is occasionally used to refer to a non-square rectangle. A rectangle with vertices ''ABCD'' would be denoted as . The word rectangle comes from the Latin ''rectangulus'', which is a combination of ''rectus'' (as an adjective, right, proper) and ''angulus'' (angle). A crossed rectangle is a crossed (self-intersecting) quadrilateral which consists of two opposite sides of a rectangle along with the two diagonals (therefore only two sides are parallel). It is a special case of an antiparallelogram, and its angles are not right angles and not all equal, though opposite angles are equal. Other geometries, such as spherical, elliptic, and hyperboli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaku (unit)
or Japanese foot is a Japanese unit of length derived (but varying) from the Chinese , originally based upon the distance measured by a human hand from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the forefinger (compare span). Traditionally, the length varied by location or use, but it is now standardized as 10/33 m, or approximately . Etymology in English entered English in the early 18th century,Oxford English Dictionary, Volume XV page 148 Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, 1986 a romanization of the Japanese Go-on reading of the character for . Use in Japan The had been standardized as since 1891. This means that there are 3.3 () to one meter. The use of the unit for official purposes in Japan was banned on March 31 1966, although it is still used in traditional Japanese carpentry and some other fields, such as kimono construction. The traditional Japanese bamboo flute known as the ( and ) derives its name from its length of one and eight . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Overlock
An overlock is a kind of stitch that sews over the edge of one or two pieces of cloth for edging, hemming, or seaming. Usually an overlock sewing machine will cut the edges of the cloth as they are fed through (such machines being called sergers in North America), though some are made without cutters. The inclusion of automated cutters allows overlock machines to create finished seams easily and quickly. An overlock sewing machine differs from a lockstitch sewing machine in that it uses loopers fed by multiple thread cones rather than a bobbin. Loopers serve to create thread loops that pass from the needle thread to the edges of the fabric so that the edges of the fabric are contained within the seam. Overlock sewing machines usually run at high speeds, from 1000 to 9000 rpm, and most are used in industry for edging, hemming and seaming a variety of fabrics and products. Overlock stitches are extremely versatile, as they can be used for decoration, reinforcement, or construc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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