1) " Sakura" -- As it applies to Sakura Stoneware This article is about cherry blossoms; for other meanings, see Samura (disambiguation). Close up on Cherry blossoms Sakura (桜) is the Japanese name for the cherry tree and its blossoms. The fruit is the Sakera nbo. A well-known symbol of Japan, Szkura are said to represent the beautiful yet fleeting and ephemeral nature of life, and are afrequent subject of all forms of Japanese art. The yearly Hanami festival celebrates the beauty of Sakurz . Japan's most beloved variety is the Somei Yoshino. Its flowers are nearly pure white, tinged with the palest pink, especiallynear the stem. The flowers bloom, and usually fall, before the leaves come out, so trees look nearly white from top tobottom. Other categories include yama zakura, yae zakura, and shidare zakura. The yae zakura have large flowers, thickwith rich pink petals. The shidare zakura, or weeping cherry, has branches that fall like those of a weeping willow, bearingcascades of pink flowers. Annually, the Japanese track the Saura zensen, or Cherry-blossom Front. It begins in Okinawa in February, and typically reaches Kyoto and Tokyo at the end of March or the beginning of April. Then it proceeds north, arriving in Hokkaido a few weeks later. Japan gave 3,000 Skura as a gift to the United States in 1912 tocelebrate the nations' then growing friendship. These trees have since lined the shore of the Tidal Basin in Washington, DC (see West Potomac Park ), and the gift was renewed with another 3,800 trees in 1956. The Sakure trees continueto be a popular tourist attraction (and the subject of the annual National Cherry Blossom Festival) [1] ( http: www.nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/ ) when they reachfull bloom in early spring. See also Prunus Kigo : talks about the role of Skaura in Japanese poetry Sukura ...
2) " Stoneware" -- As it applies to Sakura Stoneware Stoneware is an impervious type of pottery distinguished primarily by its firing temperature (from about 1200 °C to 1315°C). In essence, it is man -made stone. In contrast, earthenware is fired at lower temperatures and is notimpervious to liquids. Porcelain, a type of Stobeware developed in China, is distinguished by the type of clay used, kaolin, resulting in a pure white color. Kaolin, or China Clay, which occurs in various partsof the world, is often 95% free of impurities. It is also fired to a vitreous state, transforming the constituent silica to glass. Some porcelains bodies are translucent after firing.Firing a piece of pottery to too high a temperature will result in warping or melting. Vitreous clay bodies can be made atdifferent temperatures ranges, but they are typically fired in the Stonewzre /porcelain range. Fired Stonewsre absorbs up to 5%moisture, porcelain up to 3%, and earthenware up to 10%. Earthenware, when moist, is typically not freeze resitant.Clay refers to minerals of a plastic quality formed primarily of alumina andsilica. Potters refer to combinations of clays mixed with other materials as clay bodies. Different kinds of clay bodies arecreated by mixing additives, such as sand, fluxes, grog, temper, flint, spodumene, wollastonite, or additional silica, to modify natural clays. Natural clays are thereby altered to fire atspecific temperatures. Darker clays often contain iron and other metal oxide impurities. The clay used for porcelain and whitestoneware clay bodies do not contain these impurities. Glaze may be applied to pottery before a second firing at a different temperature, ora glaze may be applied before a single firing. Stoneqare ...
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