The 25th Moonlit Tea Ceremony: Exhibition of Tea Utensils

Even though Japan's seasons are changing, the insects are playing autumn music and the moon is shining high in the sky.

It is time for Ippodo's annual "Moonlit Night Tea Ceremony" exhibition of tea ceremony utensils.

The theme of this year's exhibition is "Dreams".

This is the theme of next year's poetry festival.

In Japan, dreams are ephemeral, as in "Butterfly's dream", while in the USA, dreams are powerful hope, as in Dr Martin Luther King's famous phrase, "I have a dream".

What dreams did Sen no Rikyu and other tea masters of the past have for the tea ceremony?

Urasenke Grand Master Hounsai advocated "Peacefulness from a single tea bowl" and appealed for peace.

Chanoyu, tea ceremony, tea room, tea bowls, tea utensils. ...... Please come and find peace.

[Artists]

Terumasa Ikeda / Yukiya Izumita / Takeshi Imaizumi / Kyokko Kaida /

Fujio Kawagishi / Hiroshi Goseki / Naoki Sakai / Katsumi Satake /

Sadamitsu Sugimoto / Morihisa Suzuki XV / Hiraku Sudo / Kensuke Takeoka /

Shion Tabata / Yui Tsujimura / Kai Tsujimura / Shuji Nakagawa /

Tsuneo Nakazawa / Kohei Nakamura / Hideyuki Fujisawa / Noriyuki Furutani / 

Tomoyuki Hoshino / Morimitsu Hosokawa / Shuko Maejima / Masahiro Maeda /

Tohru Matsuzaki / Ken Matsubara / Keiko Minoura / Jihei Murase /

Makoto Wakao / Kenji Wakasugi

Special exhibit: Shuhei Hasado

* For Terumasa Ikeda's artworks, a lottery will be drawn exclusively for visitors to the gallery during the exhibition period.