Arirang Prime Ep225 Age-old Craft of Boseong Deombeongi
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- čas přidán 20. 01. 2014
- Age-old Craft of Boseong Deombeongi
Dotted with green tea fields, Boseong is responsible for 40% of all green tea production in Korea.
There is a master potter called Song Gi-jin who lives amidst this sea of green tea plants. He upholds the traditional way of making pottery.
Pottery is a work of art shaped by clay and water. He uses a traditional kiln that he built himself to handcraft a type of ceramic ware called Boseong deombeongi.
A biscuit-fired ceramic bowl is dunked ("deombeong" in Korean) in a mixture of white slip; hence, the name deombeongi. Deombeongi bowls were invented by Joseon-era potters and are a type of Buncheong ware, or grayish-blue slipware. They were mostly made in the Boseong area.
Boseong deombeongi has a wide following in Japan, which has a vibrant tea drinking culture. During the Japanese Invasion of Korea, the Japanese took many deombeongi ceramics with them, which they renamed Kohiki-style slipware. Some of these stolen pieces have become national treasures in Japan. Young Japanese potters even visit traditional kilns in Boseong to learn how to make Joseon-style ceramics while Japanese antique collectors covet 16th or 17th century Joseon-era tea bowls. Their love of Boseong deombeongi gives us renewed interested in this ceramic art.
Deombeongi slipware was showcased in Beijing, China last November in a pottery exhibition. It was called the East Asia Three Potters Slipware Exhibition. Zhang Runsheng from China, Touri Maruyama from Japan and Song Gi-jin from Korea participated in the exhibition. Each country's unique pottery was on display and showed how Buncheong ware could be elevated to works of art.
Amongst the ceramic exhibits, Boseong deombeongi shined the brightest. Visitors saw how practical the pottery was in its simplicity. One Chinese tea master experienced the depth of East Asian philosophy while drinking tea from a deombeongi tea bowl.
Master potter Song Gi-jin has this to say...
"Deombeongi is not a finished ceramic piece or even well-made. There is a beauty to Joseon bowls that isn't forced or manmade. This kind of beauty does not fade as the years pass by. This permanence is found in Boseong deombeongi."
Song Gi-jin has spent over 20 years making Boseong deombeongi and devoted his youth to this craft. For each piece of pottery he makes, he puts in hours of dedication and careful attention to follow the traditional techniques. Boseong deombeongi slipware grows and changes with the person who uses it. That is how, one day, it becomes a bowl containing the secrets of life.
Like children Tea Party. Very special ❤
Beautiful!
I temember reading about The Pottery Wars. I can only imagine the craftsmanship of ancient Korea to cause another country like Japan, raid Korean villages of their potters to take them back to Japan and make them do their pottery. It had to of been spectacular works of art. To this day, there are still artisans from other places who go to Korea to find the ancient pottery sites so they can glean the pottery shards of the trash piles of the pottery that was busted from defects or had cracked. I remember when they were looking for clues on Celadon to see if it could be reproduced some how.
Very, very interesting stuff.
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL workmanship. Thank you for this valuable history lesson and thank you for showing the love and respect that go into making these beautiful treasures.
Watched this several times. I am so moved,so inspired.
❤👍👌❤
He is so sensitive about his art. I’d love to adopt one to treasure and watch it grow. ☺️
The Chinese teamaster's comment about the Korean teapot was that the pouring of the tea stops abruptly, in contrast to modern Chinese designs, where the pots drip slightly even after you finish pouring, and the pouring of the tea does not stop abruptly. This is true. Many modern teapot designs in China try too hard to look nice without being utilitarian. You can see at 8:33, the pouring of the tea stops quite sharply and abruptly, so there are no drips, and the perfect amount is poured. Song Gi-jin is certainly a master.
Breathtakingly beautiful...
this video is well made and informative. thank u arirang tv
Where can I find the contact info for this master? thank you.
真是美好的展覽 !
I don't drink tea. 😊
The dribble from that tea pot 8:35 was not good.