According to Chinese arts historians, tianmu is
among the most striking of the northern wares,
especially those black-glazed bowls called " Henan
tienmu". The name "tianmu" is closely related to
South China because during the Tang Dynasty when
tea-drinking was popular, it was the southern people
who first discovered that black glaze exhibited most
beautifully the green color of the tea in a bowl.
"Temmoku," as called by Japanese, is an equivalent of
the Chinese "Tianmu," which is named after the Mt
Tianmu near Hangzhou . The first truly good tianmu
bowls were made at Jianan in Fujian Province in
the tenth century. This dark stoneware bodies were
decorated with a thick, oily iron glaze. The main
color was a dark brown. The glaze often ran to big
drops at the foot. Streak of blue or steel grey, known
as "hare's fur," or the bluish "oil spots," appeared
on both the inside and outside surfaces by natural
coagulation of grey crystals. During the periods of
the Tang and the Sung, some Japanese monks took
tianmu tea bowls back to Japan , and since then the
bowls have become popular with Japanese people.
Japanese ceramic artists in general, even today,
consider it a great honor if they can bring out good
temmoku.
Heguang Tianmu and Da Qi Zhi Ren
In Taiwan , ceramic artists nowadays are adept at
the making of comparable and even better tianmu
in various forms, all radiant with lovely colors.
Tianmu ware made in the "Tithing Kiln” is called
"Heguang Tianmu" ( Tianmu ware merging into lifegivng
lights of Nature) to connote a hope that on the
one hand its pure forms and peaceful radiance can
take away spiritually the pollutants of the turbulent
society from human beings , remove their pressures,
and engender new energy in them to work on for a
better life, and on the other hand to revere and praise
the Creator for his using warm light in making all
sentient beings grow so well in the
universe. As Heguang Tianmu
is conceived in such a spirit,
it is given another epithet: "
Da Qi Zhi Ren," meaning
that great things begat
great kindness as they are
born of magnanimity.
Oil-drop Temmoku / Tian-mu Ware
Zheng Shun-ren
No 51-27, Xin Zhung Zi , Sanzhi , Taipei County , Taiwan
Phones(Home)：(02)2636-5286
(Studio)：(02)2636-8580
Mobile：0988-777-183
Email：tithing.kiln@gmail.com
坐看爐火純青，心懷天目涵碧
As I watch the kiln reach the right heat
I wait for the glittering of the tianmus
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