ものづくりの真髄

毎朝コーヒーを飲む時に、今日はどれにしようかな、とカップを選ぶのが楽しみのひとつ、最近、ずっと気に入って使っているカップが因州中井窯のもの。

因州中井窯は、鳥取にあり、民藝を代表する窯元で、柳宗理ディレクションの器もつくっている。特徴は染め分けで、緑と黒、緑と白に半々に染め分けする器が代表的なもの。

うちには同じ種類のカップが2つあり、最近、ずっと気に入って使っているカップはそのうちの1つ、いつも同じ、パッと見はほとんど違いはないが、僅かに違う。

胴の部分の曲線が違い、その差は1mm以内だが口径が僅かに違い、縁の厚みも微妙に違う。

焼き物ならばよくある話で、個体差、同じ種類のカップでもつくり手が違えば、微妙に形は違うし、焼き物は焼く時に窯の中で収縮をするので、窯の中での位置の違いにより温度も違うので、収縮率も違う。

だだ、2つを比べてみて、はじめて分かるくらいの微妙な違いなのだが、同じ種類のカップなのだが、いつも使うのはそのうちの1つ、いつも同じ。

見た目にはほとんど違いはないから2つとも気に入っているが、コーヒーを飲んで使うところまで含めると、その飲んで使う感覚まで含めると、明らかにそのうちの1つの方が良い。

その微妙な形の違いが、実際に使う時には増幅されて、大きな違いとなって使う側の感覚に訴えてくる。

もちろん、それが良いか悪いかは好みの問題だから、良し悪しはどうでもよいのだけれども、微妙な形の違いが使う時に増幅されるのが面白く、それは使わなければ分からないことで、こういう微細な形の違いが有る無しは、1つ1つ手でつくるから起こることで、それが人の感覚に影響を与えることが素晴らしく、それが正しくものづくりの真髄だと感心した。

"The essence of manufacturing"

One of the pleasures of choosing a cup when drinking coffee every morning is one of my favorite cups.

Inshu Nakai is located in Tottori, and is a representative of folk songs, and is also making pots for the direction of the Sori Yanagi. Distinctive features are dyed, green and black, green and white dyed in half and half.

There are two cups of the same kind in my house, and recently I have always liked and used one of them, which is always the same.

The curve of the body part is different, and the difference is less than 1 mm, but the aperture is slightly different, and the thickness of the edge is also slightly different.

It is a common story about grilled dishes. Individual differences, even if the same kind of cups are made differently, the shape is slightly different, and the grilled foods shrink in the cocoon during baking, so the difference in the position in the cocoon Because the temperature is different depending on the shrinkage rate is also different.

Well, it's a subtle difference that you can see for the first time by comparing the two, but it's the same kind of cup, but always using one of them, always the same.

There is almost no difference in appearance, but I like both of them, but if you include coffee and use it, obviously one of them is better if you include the feeling of using it.

The difference in the subtle form is amplified when actually used, and it makes a big difference and appeals to the sense of the user.

Of course, whether it is good or bad is a matter of taste, so it doesn't matter whether it is good or bad, but it is interesting that the difference in subtle form is amplified when it is used, and that it is impossible to know it There was a difference in the form because it was created by hand one by one, and it was wonderful that it affects human senses, and I admired that it is the essence of making things right.