Fragile Exhibition

Sukiya Okoshi Ezu

This month's Fragile Exposition is “Sukiya Okoshi Ezu”. We will introduce a variety of creative “Koshi Egami” from the tea rooms of Rikyu, Oribe, and Korin, which existed during the first 400 years of the tea ceremony, to the surroundings of the tea room, such as Setchin( toilet ), Mizuyari( a washing place in a tea‐ceremony room ), and Nakakuguri( a gate in side the garden of a Japanese tearoom ). The folded paper is raised and a paper nail is inserted to make it stand on its own without using glue. "Suki" means “I like". The dimensions and materials were drawn in detail, which greatly helped sukiya artists without architectural knowledge or skills to express their “taste” outside of the norm. This small model of a tea house was handed from the tea master to a master builder (sukiya carpenter), who deciphered it and constructed it. Both of these are one-off guides from the Sammai-sha edition of “Sukiya Okoshi Ezu” (published in 1931), a limited edition of a collection of “Okoshi ezu” handed down in the tea ceremony house 90 years ago now. If the book had wings, it might have looked like this.
[Period] 2022.7.1 - 2022.7.31