Recent Acquisitions 2009 Autumn
Exhibition of Chinese Ceramics ～ Song & Yuan
Catalog PART Ⅰ
10/16 ~ 18 2009
VENUE: TOBI ART FAIR 2009 AUTUMN
Friday16 Saturday17 ＆ Sunday18 October 2009
10/16 10：00-19：00 10/17 10：00-18：00 10/18 10：00-17：00
at Booth Stand №4-5 Tokyo Art Club
6-19-15 Shinbashi Minato-Ku Tokyo 105-0004
PART Ⅱ
10/23 ~ 31 2009
VENUE: T. EDO INOUYE & SON oriental art
Friday23 – Saturday31 October 2009 (open on Sunday)
at 4-1-12 Nihonbashi-Honcho Chuo-Ku Tokyo 103-0023 Japan
at 'ART FAIR TOKYO 2009'
Special Exhibition of
TEA SCOOP WORKS by KYOKKO KAIDA
~a spirit of tea master~
a work known as 'self meditation in the bamboo forest'
- Kyokko Kaida, a living tea master, an artist of bamboo tea scoop art whose way of questing into the depth of traditional Japanese tea ceremony may be resembling to seek after the profundity of the joy of traditional Japanese tea ceremony itself. Seeking after the material of bamboo as a subject of art which may alike to be dwelling in the natural grown bamboo forest and these bamboo may carry us of the essence of harmonized way of the Japanese tea ceremony.
BAMBOO SCOOP - was born only as an utensil for scooping powdered green tea into a tea bowl. Only Kyokko Kaida, who took one's own mind concentrated carefully and eagerly into this small utensil. There was no other artist who took this subject as one's life-work field, but him. Kyokko Kaida is one of the most serious living artist as well as a leading 'SUKISHA' or an art cherisher in Japan. In carving out bamboo scoops, the artsit always mind for the good qualified bamboo as the subject in making out a scoop itself well. 'Susudake' or the fumigated old bamboo may be only made out of the superb quality of tea scoops.
Kyokko Kaida's tea scoop is not only represent the tradition of tea ceremony utensil but also it may be brought us something extra new sense of enjoyment of unlimited world of tea ceremony. These many aspects of Kyokko Kaida's works will offer us to display his originalities in tea scoops, tea baskets and scrolls, as well as a newly developed 'Portable Tea Ceremony Room' named and known as 'I-Ssui-An' or 'A Momentarious Asleep Pavillion' .
Please make yourself enjoy this wonderful world of 'wonderland' of Kyokko Kaida and his works.
Venue: Friday 3rd April 2009 ~Sunday 5th April 2009
（3rd 11：00-21：00 4th 11：00-20：00 5th 10：30-17：00）
Place：TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FORUM Exhibition Hall 1 (B2 Fl.,)
Booth Stand No.A02
Address:3-5-1 Marunouchi Chiyoda-ku Tokyo 100-0005
Tea scoop known as 'VENUS'
Biography of Kyokko Kaida
What is 'ART FAI TOKYO'?
at 'ART FAIR TOKYO 2008'
The exhibition of 'RECENT ACQUISITIONS 2008 Spring'
If you would like to see our recent exhibition catalogue for 'ART FAIR TOKYO 2008', it available upon your request.
Please ask us for the further details.
close up [ch0]The exhibition catalogues available upon your request.
We directed a tea ceremony party as the second annual tea ceremony meeting of 'Shinkyo Tea Ceremony Meeting' at Kanedanaka, one of the most famous and sofisticated traditional Japanese style restaurant at Shinbashi, Tokyo under supervision of 'ISSA-AN tea school of SENCHA' tradition of tea ,the great tea school master of Osaka.
