Chá e Amor

The fifth episode of Aforismos Espaciais travels to Japan through the words of Yasunari Kawabata in Chá e Amor, published in that country in 1949 and translated into Portuguese by Pedro Alvim in a 1996 edition by Círculo de Leitores. With Kikuji’s house – including the garden and the tea pavilion – as the backdrop to this episode, we think about the coexistence of man and nature as an expression of a primal intimacy, which is also expressed in traditional Japanese architecture.

Reading the extract from Tea and Love: Ricardo Vaz Trindade

Credits:
Images: 01. Katsura Villa / Moon-Viewing Platform seen from the Second Room (Katsura Imperial Villa),
Yasuhiro Ishimoto, 1954. 02. Katsura Villa / Main Room, right, and the Second Room left, of the Middle Shoin, viewed
from the north-east, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, 1981-82.
Music: Shura no Hana, Meiko Kaji, 1973

Programme on the poetics of architecture. While philosophical aphorisms seek to express a truth, literary aphorisms are characterised by their expressiveness. The programme aims to highlight this poetic dwelling that the word provides, referring to the relationship of spaces and bodies with life.