The water jar displayed at Teahouse Hada is a ceramic work by artist Shin Sang-ho, created in the style known as “Mishima-yaki.”
In agrarian societies, people regarded changes in nature as the foundation of daily life, dividing the year into twelve months, twenty-four solar terms, and seventy-two seasonal periods (72 Kou), recording these flows through the symbolic language of the calendar.
The Mishima region in particular was known for producing official calendars under royal command, gaining recognition for its accuracy and authority.
Mishima-yaki translates the concept of the calendar into ceramic form. The dotted inscriptions across its surface resemble the arrangement of the seventy-two seasonal periods, evoking a calendar marked with traces of time.
This ceramic vessel is not merely an object, but a container holding the layered accumulation of time itself.
As we gaze upon the water jar, we quietly encounter the invisible passage of time and the changing seasons.
睱 茶.