Every piece of artwork has a message or meaning that can be vital to the way someone may see the artwork. The meaning of each artwork can be relayed back to political meaning of the artwork. Throughout time, the meanings that are created by art can change to better fit each society and region that they encounter. Not only can artwork create meaning, but the meanings can change in various ways.
Kyoto Cermaic Tea Cup: Momoyama Period- Japan
One thing that creates meaning throughout history is tea. Tea during the Momoyama Period is seen in many different ways as a sense of refinement. For any man who wanted to reach the highest levels of Momoyama society, tea was the way to achieve that. At one point in time, it was seen as a national sacrament that was carried out by Zen priests. (Brown 339) Tea has been seen as a way to resolve political tensions and a way to openly express those political tensions to one another. The Kyoto ceramic tea …show more content…
It starts with a dewy path to signify or create the feeling of freshness and purity as they enter the tea room (Brown 345). The door to the tea room is a very small door because going through this small door is seen as: “a utopia conceived as another world in the mountains” (Brown 345). There is also a low basin for hand washing that resembles washing off the stains of worldly dust (Brown 345). The main purpose of going into a tea room is to wash away any worldly defilement, which will prepare someone for rebirth. The southwestern corner of pond, garden of the master of fishing nets is an example of tea house and the gardens outside the tea rooms. The gardens have: “many curiously shaped limestone rocks dredged at great expense from the bottom of nearby Lake Tai, and these elements together suggest the complementary opposites of yin and yang” (Neave 199). These gardens are used to create the same serenity as the inside of a tea
Kyoto Cermaic Tea Cup: Momoyama Period- Japan
One thing that creates meaning throughout history is tea. Tea during the Momoyama Period is seen in many different ways as a sense of refinement. For any man who wanted to reach the highest levels of Momoyama society, tea was the way to achieve that. At one point in time, it was seen as a national sacrament that was carried out by Zen priests. (Brown 339) Tea has been seen as a way to resolve political tensions and a way to openly express those political tensions to one another. The Kyoto ceramic tea …show more content…
It starts with a dewy path to signify or create the feeling of freshness and purity as they enter the tea room (Brown 345). The door to the tea room is a very small door because going through this small door is seen as: “a utopia conceived as another world in the mountains” (Brown 345). There is also a low basin for hand washing that resembles washing off the stains of worldly dust (Brown 345). The main purpose of going into a tea room is to wash away any worldly defilement, which will prepare someone for rebirth. The southwestern corner of pond, garden of the master of fishing nets is an example of tea house and the gardens outside the tea rooms. The gardens have: “many curiously shaped limestone rocks dredged at great expense from the bottom of nearby Lake Tai, and these elements together suggest the complementary opposites of yin and yang” (Neave 199). These gardens are used to create the same serenity as the inside of a tea