Tea Bowls and Utensils: Decoding Raku, Hagi, Ido and the Culture of Mei
"First Raku, second Hagi, third Karatsu" — beginning with Sen no Rikyu's tea bowl ranking, this article decodes the six essential utensils (chasen, chashaku, natsume, mizusashi, kama, and kensui) and the culture of poetic mei names. With a pilgrimage guide to Kitano Tenmangu, Daitokuji, and Myokian.