2019-05
Takashi Ichikawa
Playing Wara with Chaguruma, Tea tools and Plants
Tea is a tree.
The tea planting of 1000 years of age, the origin of tea production in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan , was a tea plant that looked up.
The tea planting of Sichuan tea leaves in Chaozhou was a tea plantation.
Both the small round tea of Taiwan tea and the thin long tea of Chinese tea return to the shape of leaves at the time of tea.
The tea was a leaf.
When tasting tea, the aroma, taste, bitterness, astringency, and afterglow spread in the mouth.
The more you know about things related to tea serving manner, manners, tools, wabi, sabi, yin and yang, and tea, pretty deep.
Tea is a very interesting field with many elements to explore.
I want you to enjoy such tea lightly and to feel the taste of tea. How are you going? I have a good tea.
I served tea by “Chaguruma” which creates a place for tea outdoors regardless of the location.
I made “Chaguruma No.9”at last year. Also “Chaguruma No.10” at this year…
When I reconsider the tea as “Happening of Water, Leaf, Yang (fire) and Human”, I feel the margin of imagination. It seems like something can be done.
Is there anything to replace “Leaf”of “Happening of Water, Leaf, Yang (fire)and Human”with flowers, seeds, steams and roots?
What would happen if it were other plants than tea leaves? Feel various, try and return to tea, maybe…
In this exhibition, I’m pleased to present the pottery for roasting, toasting, baking, crushing, steaming, kneading etc…with a focus on Chaguruma and tea tools.
Takashi Ichikawa
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We are pleased to present “Playing Wara with Chaguruma, tea tools and plants”, by Takashi Ichikawa, sell the new Chaguruma and tea tools.
On the first and second day of the exhibition, We will hold a tea ceremony “Happening of Water, Leaf, Yang(fire)and Human” by Ichikawa, Cooking artist of Nao Uekusa and Sound artist of MAMIUMU.
*Chaguruma: Mobile storing table for exclusive use of the tea.
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Exhibition period:
June 29 – July 7, 2019
*The artist will be attending on June 29 and 30.
Place:
5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866
Open 11am – 7pm
*Closed: June 19, June 28
Opening Event:
A tea ceremony “Happening of Water, Leaf, Yang (Fire) and Human”
Date:
Saturday, June 29 / 11:30am, 2:30pm, 4pm, 5:30pm
Sunday, June 30 / 11:30am, 2:30pm, 4pm
Number of seats: 6 in each time / Reached the fixed number.
4,500 JPY (All the seats are booked.)
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Farmoon
COSMIC WONDER Khadi work Haori
“An Empty Vessel” Film Screening Party
Khadi cotton “Farmoon” work haori
We are pleased to present work haori for “Farmoon” founder and owner-Chef Masayo Funakoshi, from the early summer collection of COSMIC WONDER”Celestial Aura”.
We will hold a film screening ”An Empty Vessel” which explores the memories of the land on the stage of Nara, with the present of work haori made of Indian hand-woven cotton Khadi and serves meals inspired “Celestial Aura” by Masayo Funakoshi.
This event will be held as a related event of the Pop up store.
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Date:
Saturday, June 1, 2019
7pm − 9pm
Place:
Farmoon
9 Higashi-kubota cho, Kitashirakawa, Sakyou-ku, Kyoto
Number of seats:
30 / Reached the fixed number
6,000JPY
Please feel free to contact “STARDUST”.
*We stopped accepting applications for this event.
Curated by:
COSMIC WONDER
STARDUST
Farmoon
POP UP STORE:
COSMIC WONDER at STARDUST
June 1 – 9, 2019
Opening Talk:
Saturday, June 1, 2019
Cosmic Wonder Yukinori Maeda and STARDUST Kana Shimizu / Guest: Farmoon Masayo Funakoshi.
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An Empty Vessel (Japanese title: Kara no Utsuwa)
Year 2016. Chef Masayo Funakoshi goes to Nara, Japan. She is now in front of the camera sharing stories taking place from Japan’s ancient land. With an anthropological and artistic approach to discovering Nara, follow her as she explores the roots and culture of the land’s faith and food. Watch her as she creates links as she collects and explores “materials” from her quest, going beyond the boundaries of presenting just a meal. A collaborative feature-length documentary featuring Hiroo Ninomiya as Director, Cinematography from Masato Indo and original music score from Takeo Toyama. Pre-released in Paris in 2018, this will be the second screening in Japan following a successful showing at Wanderers Studio. (Japanese/English subtitles/ Running time: 79 minutes / Production: FOOD CARAVAN)
Masayo Funakoshi
Farmoon Owner-Chef Upon majoring in Sculpture at Pratt Institute, feeling inspired with the expression of cooking, Masayo attends culinary school in New York City. Funakoshi continues to learn how to cook at one of New York City’s most esteemed kitchens, Blue Hill, and travels on to Europe and regions of Asia to explore food culture and cooking. Her travels take her across the Pacific Ocean as chef for an Australian cruise ship, as well as chef for a long-established hotel in Bali. Masayo returns to Japan as director and head chef to open kiln, a restaurant located in central Kyoto. In May 2018, Masayo opened her own atelier, tea salon, private restaurant, Farmoon.
She is also active in global and local projects relating to topics such as food anthropology, art and design.
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An Empty Vessel, 2016, ©︎narafoodcaravan
COSMIC WODENR
“Ryugu” Masonry Traditional Repair Work Course
We are pleased to present “Masonry Traditional Repair Work Course” with Jun Nishikawa of landscape coordinator and Kazuo Akao of repairing a masonry at Miyama, Kyoto.
We will rebuild the collapsed masonry and work on improvement around the masonry so that the masonry will not collapse in the future.
A year ago, when Nishikawa visited Yukinori Maeda’s atelier “Ryugu”, I consulted Nishikawa about the fact that the masonry was broken.
“I want to repair the broken masonry, I do not want to use concrete to solidify the masonry if possible…because the finish is natural and beautiful..it is environmentally friendly”.
“Old people did not use concrete… I want to restore it in the old way”. We repeated discussion with Akao about how to repair and how to maintain it.
As well as rebuilding the masonry, we will do repair work including the cause of the breakage, and we will disclose the basics of how to pile the stone and work to the local people and those who are in trouble.
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Schedule:
May 15 − May 21, 2019 / 9am − around 5pm
15th (Wed.): Preparation of work, Square stone partial dismantling removal
16th (Thu.): Square stone partial reloading
17th (Fri.): Building improvement work
18th (Sat.): Masonry restoration work
19th (Sun.): Masonry restoration work
20th (Mon.): Improvement work on surrounding area of masonry
21st (Tue.): Adjustment date, Clean up
Place:
Kayabuki-no-sato, Miyama, Kyoto (National preservation district of historic buildings)
Fee:
2,000 JPY ( Fee is uniform regardless of the number days)
Lunch:
500 JPY (Indian Curry and Original dishes etc by Cooking department of Kousagisya farm)
Recruitment number:
5～8 (each day)
Apply in e-mail. Send your name, telephone number, address to the following address.
*We stopped accepting applications for this event.
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Kazuharu Wakao
Director of Art Land Limited.
He is good at landscaping civil engineering work using natural stone and natural materials in consideration of the environment.
Manufacturing Meister, Director of regeneration of the earth in Kanto-Koshinetsu region.
Jun Nishikawa
Landscape department of Kousagisya.
Working in environment-friendly agriculture in Chino-sho, Mie prefecture.
He had been coordinating environment harmonic gardening.
Celestial Festival
Beautiful Festival of Stars
From holy me
From holy you
Shine light of universe
Echoing the light sound of heaven and earth
Now We are playing to live in harmony with everything on this star.
We are enjoying it as the earth is rising. A lot of lights dance from the sky, and we are entering a new era.
We are pleased to present all Space Blessing Festival “Celestial Festival” at Center for COSMIC WONDER.
Mirei Hattori will be poetry reading and Facilitator, Hoshi-no-bouzu tells us the voices of the shining stars,
Feminyan reads the stars of the Heaven and leads them to a beautiful dimension.
Art sound unit “Jue and Anoa” will perform a primitive performance.
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Date:
Saturday, May 25, 2019
1pm − around 4pm
Place:
5-18-10 Minami-aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo
T. +81 (0)3 5774 6866
Open 11am – 7pm
*It will be open from 3:30pm on the 25th.
Number of seats:
70 / Reached the fixed number
5,000 JPY
*We stopped accepting applications for this event.
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Hoshi-no-bouzu
Hoshi-no-bouzu write stories from the star’s voices, while farming in Saku, Nagano Prefecture.
Feminyan
Feminyan uses western astrology, oriental four pillars of destiny and feng shui to understand the resonance with stars and nature, read through each person’s life drawing.
Mirei Hattori
Autor, Chief Editor of “murmur magazine”, Poet.
Jue and Anoa
Art sound unit of MAMIUMU (sound artist) and Yukinori Maeda (Contemporary artist and Founder of Cosmic Wonder).