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Special Tea Utensils
The Special utensils (名物 ''meibutsu'') are historic and precious Japanese tea utensils (茶道具). They consisted of important tea bowls, kettles, spoons, whisks, etc. The classification came not only from value of the tool itself but also by the possessor and the inheritance. History The Ashikaga ''shōgun'' accumulated a number of precious items into the treasury called Higashiyama Treasure (東山御物 ''Higashiyama gomotsu''), which also contained a number of tea items. After the fall of the shogunate, the treasury broke up and many of the items were dispersed or lost. Those that have survived today are designed National Treasures by the government. At the beginning of the Muromachi period, with the rise of the Japanese tea culture, the demand for tea was soaring, and an appreciation began to develop for locally-made items and wares. Until then the most appreciated items by the aristocracy were items from China that started with the Tang dynasty. A classic example i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gourd
Gourds include the fruits of some flowering plant species in the family Cucurbitaceae, particularly ''Cucurbita'' and ''Lagenaria''. The term refers to a number of species and subspecies, many with hard shells, and some without. One of the earliest domesticated types of plants, subspecies of the bottle gourd, ''Lagenaria siceraria'', have been discovered in archaeological sites dating from as early as 13,000 BCE. Gourds have had numerous uses throughout history, including as tools, musical instruments, objects of art, film, and food. Terminology ''Gourd'' is occasionally used to describe crop plants in the family Cucurbitaceae, like pumpkins, cucumbers, squash, luffa, and melons. More specifically, ''gourd'' refers to the fruits of plants in the two Cucurbitaceae genera ''Lagenaria'' and ''Cucurbita'', or also to their hollow, dried-out shell. There are many different gourds worldwide. The main plants referred to as gourds include several species from the genus ''Cucurbita'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mishima Ware
Mishima ware (三島焼) refers to different types of imported and adopted Japanese pottery. Mishima originally refers to the shimamono pottery imported from the islands of Taiwan, Luzon, and "Amakawa" (Macau). They were characterized by being roughly-made and often uneven, thus epitomizing the Japanese aesthetic of ''wabi-sabi''. In later centuries, it came to refer to imported ceramics (''Gohon'') from Korea with the slip inlay style. This style was imitated and produced locally in Japan. Shimamono Mishima As described in the ''Tōkikō'', Mishima (literally "three islands") originally referred to shimamono pottery imported from the islands of indigenous Taiwan, Luzon, and "Amakawa" (Macau). Luzon Mishima (''Rusuntsubo'') were usually made from purple-black clay and usually had a green glaze. Native Taiwanese Mishima (''Hagi Mishima'') were made from light-colored clay and were decorated with a row of round knobs and had black marks on the bottom. Amakawa Mishima are made from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shimamono
''Shimamono'' (島物 "island objects") is a generic term for Japanese tea utensils produced outside Japan, Korea and China, mainly from Southeast Asia. History Items from Korea are referred to as ''kōraimono'' (高麗物) and from China called ''karamono'' (唐物) are not considered ''shimamono''. They were imported with ships on trade routes and started becoming popular in the 15th and 16th centuries. The term therefore can be taken literally to mean "island objects". By the time of the rule of the ''Shōgun'' Tokugawa Yoshimune, imitation ''shimamono'' were also produced in Japan. However, at this point they were called "striped objects", but the pronunciation remained the same. As such they can be counted as part of Japanese pottery and porcelain. The treatise ''Tōkikō'' describes the Japanese pottery trade with Asia and gives detailed descriptions. Types See also * Special tea tools References Literature * https://books.google.com/books/about/Nanban_a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Weblio
Weblio is a free integrated bilingual dictionary website and online encyclopedia for Japanese-speaking sites operated by the , formerly known as the . Weblio can perform a bulk search on a variety of dictionaries, encyclopedias and glossaries, and return results. The dictionary facility includes ''Kenkyūsha's New Japanese-English Dictionary First published in 1918, has long been the largest and most authoritative Japanese-English dictionary. Translators, scholars, and specialists who use the Japanese language affectionately refer to this dictionary as the ''Green Goddess'' or ('' ...'' and 70 other Japanese–English and English–Japanese dictionaries with 4,160,000 English words and 4,730,000 Japanese words. As of January 20, 2016, a total of 665 dictionaries, encyclopedias and glossary sites can be searched in full. History Beta testing began on December 12, 2005, and the site began to formally provide services searching 11 different dictionaries and encyclopedias on Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anime
is Traditional animation, hand-drawn and computer animation, computer-generated animation originating from Japan. Outside of Japan and in English, ''anime'' refers specifically to animation produced in Japan. However, in Japan and in Japanese, (a term derived from a shortening of the English word ''animation'') describes all animated works, regardless of style or origin. Animation produced outside of Japan with similar style to Japanese animation is commonly referred to as anime-influenced animation. The earliest commercial Japanese animations date to 1917. A characteristic art style emerged in the 1960s with the works of cartoonist Osamu Tezuka and spread in following decades, developing a large domestic audience. Anime is distributed theatrically, through television broadcasts, Original video animation, directly to home media, and Original net animation, over the Internet. In addition to original works, anime are often adaptations of Japanese comics (manga), light novels, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manga
Manga (Japanese: 漫画 ) are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Most manga conform to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century, and the form has a long prehistory in earlier Japanese art. The term ''manga'' is used in Japan to refer to both comics and cartooning. Outside of Japan, the word is typically used to refer to comics originally published in the country. In Japan, people of all ages and walks of life read manga. The medium includes works in a broad range of genres: action, adventure, business and commerce, comedy, detective, drama, historical, horror, mystery, romance, science fiction and fantasy, erotica ('' hentai'' and ''ecchi''), sports and games, and suspense, among others. Many manga are translated into other languages. Since the 1950s, manga has become an increasingly major part of the Japanese publishing industry. By 1995, the manga market in Japan was valued at (), with annual sales of 1.9billion manga books and manga magazi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hyouge Mono
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by . It was serialized in the Seinen manga, manga magazine ''Weekly Morning'' from 2005 to 2017 and collected into 25 volumes by publisher Kodansha. ''Hyouge Mono'' won an Excellence Prize for manga at the 13th Japan Media Arts Festival in 2009. It also won the Grand Prize at the 14th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prizes in 2010. The manga was adapted into an anime television series in 2011. Plot During the Sengoku period in Japan, while the shadow of Oda Nobunaga still looms over the land, the warlord Furuta Shigenari, Furuta Sasuke loses his soul to the Japanese tea ceremony, tea ceremony. While war shakes the world around him, he faces his own conflict between his desire for promotion and his love for his meibutsuki, art. Characters ; : :A vassal of Oda Nobunaga. He is an aesthete, a person who holds a dear appreciation of art and beauty. He is obsessed with the form of Oribe ware, glazed pottery, tea, and architecture. He i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plover
Plovers ( , ) are a widely distributed group of wading birds belonging to the subfamily Charadriinae. Description There are about 66 species in the subfamily, most of them called "plover" or "dotterel". The closely related lapwing subfamily, Vanellinae, comprises about 20 species. Plovers are found throughout the world, with the exception of the Sahara and the polar regions, and are characterised by relatively short bills. They hunt by sight, rather than by feel as longer-billed waders like snipes do. They feed mainly on insects, worms or other invertebrates, depending on the habitat, which are obtained by a run-and-pause technique, rather than the steady probing of some other wader groups. Plovers engage in false brooding, a type of distraction display. Examples include pretending to change position or to sit on an imaginary nest site. Species list in taxonomic sequence The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes these 45 species of plovers and dotter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Celadon
''Celadon'' () is a term for pottery denoting both wares glazed in the jade green celadon color, also known as greenware or "green ware" (the term specialists now tend to use), and a type of transparent glaze, often with small cracks, that was first used on greenware, but later used on other porcelains. Celadon originated in China, though the term is purely European, and notable kilns such as the Longquan kiln in Zhejiang province are renowned for their celadon glazes. Celadon production later spread to other parts of East Asia, such as Japan and Korea as well as Southeast Asian countries such as Thailand. Eventually, European potteries produced some pieces, but it was never a major element there. Finer pieces are in porcelain, but both the color and the glaze can be produced in stoneware and earthenware. Most of the earlier Longquan celadon is on the border of stoneware and porcelain, meeting the Chinese but not the European definitions of porcelain. For many centuries, celad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eggplant
Eggplant ( US, Canada), aubergine ( UK, Ireland) or brinjal (Indian subcontinent, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa) is a plant species in the nightshade family Solanaceae. ''Solanum melongena'' is grown worldwide for its edible fruit. Most commonly purple, the spongy, absorbent fruit is used in several cuisines. Typically used as a vegetable in cooking, it is a berry by botanical definition. As a member of the genus ''Solanum'', it is related to the tomato, chili pepper, and potato, although those are of the New World while the eggplant is of the Old World. Like the tomato, its skin and seeds can be eaten, but, like the potato, it is usually eaten cooked. Eggplant is nutritionally low in macronutrient and micronutrient content, but the capability of the fruit to absorb oils and flavors into its flesh through cooking expands its use in the culinary arts. It was originally domesticated from the wild nightshade species ''thorn'' or ''bitter apple'', '' S. incanum'',Tsao ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nitta Katatsuki, Front View
Nitta may refer to: Places * Nitta, Sweden, a locality in Ulricehamn Municipality, Västra Götaland County of Sweden * Nitta, Gunma; a.k.a. Nitta, Nitta, Gunma, Japan. A town in the district of Nitta of the prefecture of Gunma in Japan * Nitta District, Gunma; a.k.a. Nitta, Gunma, Japan. A district in the prefecture of Gunma in Japan People * Nitta clan (新田氏), a major noble family in medieval Japan ** Minamoto no Yoshishige a.k.a. ''Nitta Tarō'' (1135–1202), founder of the Nitta clan ** Nitta Yoshisada (1301–1338), samurai commander ** Nitta Yoshiaki (died 1337), samurai ** Nitta Yoshioki (died 1358), samurai ** Nitta Yoshimune (1335–1368), samurai commander ** Nitta Yoshisuke (1305–1340), samurai *Nitta Oyako (Hiroshi and Masahiro), Japanese music act *Akeomi Nitta (born 1973), Japanese kickboxer *Daisuke Nitta (born 1980), Japanese football player *Emi Nitta (born 1985), Japanese voice actress *Eri Nitta (born 1968), Japanese singer *Sandra Nitta (born 1949), Ame ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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