Cha-no-yu feels a little difficult, and it makes you stand, but if you think that you only have a cup of tea in your favorite bowl, you want to do it! You should be able to feel that. Here are the people who are fascinated by the intellectual play of tea ceremony. When you get stuck, it is good to touch another world. At Wakame INTO JAPAN, a lacquer artist, avant-garde tea-man, a salaryman pottery ... I squeeze on how to deal with each tea and update all three times "everyday tea is ROCK!" Every Thursday. A new discovery may be found: "What, tea is so free!"
"Because it is a company employee, I can only focus on well bowls"
Mr. Masato Hiragane who works for the third maker
In 2016, I built an ax for myself from scratch. The outside pot is also exceptional.
It is full-fledged proficiency in terms of hobbies. People who have seen Mr. Hiragane Masato's well tea bowls are surprised at the level even if they have never consumed tea. There are a lot of people who enjoy ceramic art as a hobby, but the people who can only make a kind of well tea bowl which is also from the Korean Peninsula in the particular genre of green tea tea bowl of tea ceremony are probably only Hiragane alone in the country. This is rock and roll, where you can truly love what you love.
Mr. Hiragane's tea hot water ROCK part 1
Life is limited. So, I'm going to push it all the way
It is the Asamiya area of Shiga Prefecture Koka city that there is a yard. On weekdays I spend in a company dormitory in Hyogo and move here on the weekend. I wonder if it's a hard double life, and the person says with a smile, "I have a sharp life". Thus, it is a moment of bliss to watch the teacup carefully.
The atmosphere of calling is majestic!
Mr. Hiragane's tea hot water ROCK part 2
I only make a well bowl. There is so deep attraction
Shigaraki Asagu district surrounded by peaceful rice fields. In one corner of the village overlooking the tea fields, there is a second house by Masato Hiragane. "I'm excited about something," said Hiragane. It is said to be the first time to receive coverage properly. It was a few years ago that I heard that there is a salary man who makes an extremely good well bowl. Among the tea pots, the well bowl is one of the most difficult pottery. What kind of tea bowl is this? 
It is a hard work to create beautiful beauty only on the hillside.
The well is a kind of Korean tea bowl baked on the Korean peninsula during the Li Dynasty, and the extant works are famous for the Kiyadomon well owned by Kohoan. It is said that the characteristics of the well are the body of “Biwa”, “Takachi” resembling bamboo shoots, and “Kirarigi” of the glaze around the plateau.
Of course, the bowl of mixed rice of Hokahoka is also a well here.
"I started pottery around 1996. Four years later, when I was working in Tokyo four years later, when I visited Masuko's potter, Yusuke Iwami, I was addicted to the well tea bowl. Instead, I can pursue only the well tea bowl because I am a company worker, and the two pairs of straws are my energy. ”In the well, all traces of the craftsman's work appear as a face of the tea bowl . So, if you move your eyes with a finger, you may be informed of the author's feelings and even his personality. "Can you notice the marks of the potential iron (Shell), Sittah (workbench), and the finger marks on the hillside that can be produced when hanging on the heels? It only appears on the ground, "said Hiragane. Even if the maker completely reduces the hand, it still appears. That is the best attraction of the well tea bowl.
Mr. Hiragane's tea hot water ROCK part 3
When playing with tea, the head and sensitivity are more soft
A pleasant breeze passes from the entrance to the tea room.
Tea utensils are found in the antique city that made their senses, or they make their own. It is said that the ban will be made by the acquaintance's friend. Today, I put pretty wild chrysanthemum and Nanten in a bamboo single-cut flower that I cut myself.
The left is a bamboo single cut flower. The right is the first work written several years ago. This song is called "Chazamu" by Masuda duno (Masudadon Nou) brush possessed by Tomoyuki Nakata of "Gion Music" who is the tea friend.
The famous sweet potato "Kodon" made by the local Shika-Rakuen Doru Jukukuru Honpo is rustic sweetness.
Connect with nice people through pottery and tea
It's time to relax with friends who met with tea. From the right, Miho Okuda, Ms. Ichikawa Ichikawa, Mr. Hiromi Omori, Hiragane, and Mr. Mikubo smiley.
Such Hiragane, also started to practice tea ceremony to know more teacups. Then, a connection with unique people of a wide generation is made. "I do not want to enjoy the atmosphere of the tea ceremony, not the" hospitality "of the large tea ceremony. The lord and the full-time customer are not like, and it seems like the tea is filled with waiwai. A caring soft connection, such It feels like a sense of time that makes for an irreplaceable time. ”The reason I became strongly aware of that is that I had a great experience of losing my sister Ayako for breast cancer last year. "It was about ten years of fighting disease life. We are twins, and it is impossible to express in a word that it is impossible to get rid of them .... Life is ... life is very tight. I can't always meet, so I'm really thinking, "I will do my best for fun. I want to take care of this moment if I spend it with someone".
Asamiya is a land where tea production is thriving. Mr. Hiragane also helps with tea picking during the first tea season.
Masahito Hiragane. While working as a chemical maker, he produces only well bowls with self-made awnings. There is a rush of orders, but unfortunately a solo exhibition is undecided. However, we are sending attractive information about teacups and tea through SNS.
"Everyday tea is ROCK!" All three times
The first lacquer artist / "Hikoten-e" picture representative Takashi Wakamiya
The 2nd Avant Garde Tea Party President Shiro Kondo
Mr. Masato Hiragane who works at the 3rd manufacturer
My motto is "I'm serious about being stupid", and I am having fun and having fun every day.
