title: "Guinomi".
abstract: In the West, pottery is usually deemed “craft” rather than “art” and has long existed near the bottom of the aesthetic hierarchy. In Japan, to the contrary, pottery is among the most highly regarded forms of art, in great part due to its role in the Zen-inspired Tea ceremony. Because the Tea ceremony effectively creates a link between several art forms (landscape, architecture, poetry, calligraphy, pottery, cuisine), a profound and highly codified symbolic system has developed that articulates all art forms, all the while celebrating the chance effects of the heat of the kiln and the cycles of nature. This complex aesthetic system has a radical impact on formal Japanese cuisine, which is of startling complexity and symbolic profundity.
authors.forename: Allen S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Weiss
mesh_terms: D000884:Anthropology, Cultural / Q000193:education / Q000266:history; D002562:Ceremonial Behavior; D003297:Cooking and Eating Utensils / Q000266:history; D004326:Drinking / Q000208:ethnology; D049668:History, 15th Century; D049669:History, 16th Century; D049670:History, 17th Century; D049671:History, 18th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D007564:Japan / Q000208:ethnology; D019368:Nature; D013561:Symbolism; D013662:Tea / Q000266:history
chemical_list: D013662:Tea