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Word: shigaraki (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Japan's Renaissance | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

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