ON SUTEMI HORIGUCHI’S ARCHITECTURAL THOUGHT DEVELOPED AROUND RIKYU’S TEA BOWL

Abstract

In his book Rikyu’s Tea, Sutemi Horiguchi considered tea ceremony from a viewpoint of overall relations among space, thing, and behavior and gave tea bowls the representative status of tea-things. When he referred to them, he used an expression of “tea bowl in tea ceremony.” It suggests he saw tea bowls in tea ceremony as something incomplete in itself. In other words, contrary to our expectation, he shed light on lack of artful beauty or aesthetic character of tea bowls. This paper intends to precisely trace Horiguchi’s these considerations on tea bowls and clarify their meanings in his architectural thought.