Utsushi is not the act of tracing form.
It is a serious dialogue—
a direct confrontation undertaken with profound respect for those who came before,
and an attempt to touch their thought and their silence.
Standing before the questions left by Rikyū,
this practice engages with an aesthetic sensibility
that continues to live beyond four hundred years of time.
What is carried over is not shape,
but the traces of thought—
pared down, chosen, and left behind.
This bowl does not recreate the past.
It is utsushi—
a means of keeping the question alive
in the present moment.