Word: shigaraki
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...temple in Kyoto, circa 1566, a youthful achievement that invites comparison to the 25-year-old Masaccio's frescoes in Florence; one of the grandest specimens of calligraphic painting in Japanese history, Konoe Nobutada's Six Principles for the Composition of Poems; and a coarse, cracked Shigaraki water jar that is said to have belonged to no less a master than Sen no Rikyū, the man who codified the tea ceremony as a formal art and was in effect the Petronius Arbiter of Momoyama taste...
...contents of these three rooms stand out in the memory of the casual observer, the student lounging there after a Fine Arts examination. That screen on the dais, with its silver gray background and autumn flowers behind a brushwood fence, is echoed in the huge grey globe of Shigaraki pottery. The red camelia of the screen finds a red reflection in the lacquer of the ancient stand below. So too with the insolent macaw by Jakucho as his whiteness is given the emphasis of repetition in the whiteness of the jar beneath him. In short the arrangement is as winning...
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