Water container

Recipiente para água

Stoneware, glazed Karatsu ware Momoyama period, 16th c. (late) Inv. CA-CFC.421

Wabi-sabi aesthetics

By the 16th century, influenced by Zen Buddhism emerged the wabi-sabi aesthetics, adopted by the ‘tea ceremony’, or chanoyu, practitioners, and by which ‘the imperfect, impermanent and incomplete’, began to be appreciated, and therefore the preference for coarse, asymmetric and robust ash-glazed stonewares.