用と美 — yō to bi, use and beauty. Yanagi Muneyoshi (Sōetsu) wrote of them as bound to each other: use gives rise to beauty, and beauty helps the use in return. We write about those things the way they were meant to be met: in a kitchen, in a hand, on a floor being swept.
BOWLS · MINGEI LINEAGE
The pattern is not drawn. It is the track left where a thin blade met half-dry clay and leapt away.