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Also if someone have knowledge about Raku teaware and especially about signs of different Raku masters and periods you can try your forces in identification of production period of my Raku chawans. I attached signs here.

1. Bowl-raku "Mukiguri" ("Peeled chestnut"). Raku Tejiro. Collection of the Agency for Cultural Affairs of Japan. 2. Black bowl "Series" (Aged pine), the work of Raku IX (1756-1838). 3. Tea cup kuro-raku Raku Tejiro. 17th century. From the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. 4....

Ruku pottery and philosophy of Raku. Today, I want to tell you about Japanese Raku teaware, that is unpopular type of traditional Japanese pottery. The main idea of this style is the ability to find beauty in something imperfect, simple, close to nature. Also ideas of Raku have similar points with W...

2) Ya Koy Lao village(丫口老寨) ...little correction ,if I may. - Ya Kou Lao Zhai I didn't have a time to read all trough, just this I've noticed when skimming trough the text. Thanks for your contribution to common knowledge, good job! Oh, i forgot about transcription, thank you for you addition !

Gracias, Koveee, for the article! I've been basking in couple teas from Banpo village this summer but had no success pinpointing the place on the maps. The ones that I had where truly delicious, sweet in a humble way, honey and flowers here and there. Though I cherished them more for the deep, beau...

Nannuo Mountain(南糯山). Nannuo is the one of early opened tea mountains in Menghai. Today Nannuo have authority of famous location on the same place with Naka, Ban Zhang and other locations. Nannuo Mountain is not only one village, Nannuo is mountain chain that contain settlements on different levels ...

First of all, i want to make a little deviation. In chinese sources, often village and mountain have similar meaning, because area of tea trees or plants is not only area of one mountain or small area of one village. Likewise, mountain it is not only small territory of top of the mountain, it is can...

Hi, maybe you can post some photos of cake for us?). I have interest how it looks like. In my opinion abundance of moisture in cake maybe produced mistake or features of raw material from wild location. Besides, tea can be too young for you taste and storaged in high moisture surroundings in Thai.

for wrapping bingcha and similar, i found this (thanks, phyllsheng): https://www.chawangshop.com/tea-hardware/packaging-needs/hand-made-paper-for-packing-pressed-puerh-tea.html https://www.chawangshop.com/tea-hardware/packaging-needs/hand-made-paper-for-packing-pressed-puerh-tea-2.html rice paper i...

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Wed Jul 13, 2022 7:12 pm

https://www.pageoftea.com/bulang-mountain-bu-lang-shan

Thank you for addition!

I think every tea-fan heard about Lao Ban Zhang 老班章 and Bulang Shan 布朗山, may be you can heard about Xin Ban Zhang 新班章 and Xiao Ban Zhang 小班章 , but also you can have some difficulties and problems with identificate and understand geography, features and differences between these locations. Firstly, w...

@teamakers.art its fantastic collection i would happy if you publish more pictures)

teamakers.art i think i need to rephrase my massage. Generally it is based on first teapot and it is poorer then others.(in my opinion). But others is very good for old pots! It is typical for 1980-1990 pots be worse made then nowadays teapots, but zisha( its name of glay of majority these pots) in...

I think you can publish all you teapots in this topic or send them to me on this forum and i can help you to find true cost of teapots. But my opinion that true cost of these 2 teapots its about 20-50 $ and only besause thereof, that they made by old yixing glay(You can read about it in internet ). ...

Hi, I think this teapot on pic's not very expensive and rare. Its yixing clay, but its simple and not rare too. This four figure under cap may be attribute of First yixing factory, although i dont sure about it. Teapot have same sharps insade and, ganeral, made a little messy. I think it manufacture...