旅行茶碗 - Trip Chawan
My school's study abroad students all - minus one or two - went to Shiga Prefecture on a day trip. One of the things we did was to make these rice bowls, or chawan. chawan is written with the characters for "tea" and "teacup", so your guess is as good as mine as to why it's a rice bowl.Anyway, we were allowed to make one piece of random pottery. They recommended a chawan because they're fairly simple and hard to mess up. A lot of people did cool artsy stuff, I'm sure some people did not-so-cool artsy stuff, and... then there's mine. It's an ugly beast, but it does successfully keep my chopsticks on the top of the bowl where I want them, and that's all I was trying to do.
Mission accomplished, I guess.
posted by William at
11/19/2008 10:58:00 AM
8 Comments:
Interesting and cool. So I only know a little bit about pottery...did they fire it while you were there doing other things and how long did that take? Just curious.
I dunno when they baked 'em, but we went on the trip about two months ago and just got them on Tuesday.
Ah...I see. I thought you got them the same day and that seemed quick to me, but I really don't know how long it takes.
Simple and functional is good. Beats trying something fancy and having it utterly fail.
S'the plan.
Was that bowl actually yours? It seems way too...nice?
It is. Everybody else tried to either just make something with circular symmetry or something artsy. A couple people ended up with random things they were just messing with and left near their stuff actually attached, like Cassie. She has a random bowl with a bird on it, now, and is trying to decide whether or not she should just pull it off.
Oh, and it doesn't look so good if you're actually looking at it. I guess i accidentally managed to make it look good? I was just playing with my umbrella...
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