Kintsugi Art No.1【Yobitsugi】
Yobitsugi Shino Chawan “Futatabi – Again”
Makie K24 gold powder
Kintsugi process consists of coating Urushi–Japanese lacquer.
Shino Chawan The same type of broken pieces of ceramics.
Yobitsugi for Shino Chawan
Shino Chawan is a bowl baked with white glaze for drinking powdered green tea, made in Gifu Area, Japan, during Azuchimomoyama Period (AD1573 ~ 1603)。
Unohanagaki, a widely known Shino Chawan, is designated as a national treasure.
Yobitsugi is one of the techniques of Kintsugi. It means a method of collecting and assembling the same type of broken pieces of ceramics to reconstruct a ware.
Yobitsugi is an artwork consisting of combining and piecing together by Kintsugi good quality fragments of the same type ceramics baked in the same kiln which were discarded because of cracks, etc, and by imaging an ideal shape of a bowl to be reconstructed, thus creating a new bowl (for drinking powdered green tea).
Kintsugi and Yobitsugi are the metaphor for re-generation of a soul
Yobitsugi Shino Chawan “Futatabi – Again”
Yobitsugi by Showzi Tsukamoto、 2013
After the regeneration by the tecqnic called Yobitsugi using K24 gold powder “Makie”, appeared the sight, liken to the full-bloomed plum tree together with white blossoms made by the glazed patterns .
The Yobitsugi Shino chawan is given a name “Futatabi– Again”.
The name “Futatabi” was taken from Waka or traditional Japanese poem by Fujiwara no Okikaze which was published in Kokinwakashu or the Collection of Old and New Poems.
“Koe taezu Nakeya Uguisu Hitotoseni Futatabi to dani Kubeki Harukawa”
[Translation]
“Nightingale, do not cease your song, do sing plenty this year. This spring will never come again”
Kokinwakashu is a collection of fine waka poems worthy of being passed on to posterity. The collection was compiled by Emperor Daigo by selecting excellent poems composed between the ancient times and the early Heian period (circa. 905).
The reason why Chawans are given the names taken from Waka poems composed by ancient poets is because the message to be conveyed by the chawan is intended to impress people intensely.
The reason why Yobitsugi Shino chawan are given the names taken from Waka poems composed by ancient poets is because the message to be conveyed by the Yobitsugi Shino chawan is intended to impress people intensely.
Bythe way, in Japan, plum-tree and nightingale had been considered as well matched pair and often used as the subjects of the poems.
However , on the Yobitsugi Shino chawan “Futatabi– Again” the sight of the nightingale can not be found anywhere.
The time, when green tea powder is blended with hot water in the Yobitsugi Shino chawan, there comes the color of nightingale.
By this refined device, vision of plum tree and nightingale meet again on the Yobitsugi Shino chawan “Futatabi– Again”
Showzi Tsukamoto, the Master of Kintsugi Souke