Comments on: Celadon http://blog.wordnik.com/celadon Connecting people with meaning. Wed, 09 May 2012 19:58:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Grant Barrett http://blog.wordnik.com/celadon/comment-page-1#comment-299 Grant Barrett Wed, 11 Nov 2009 05:28:23 +0000 http://blog.wordnik.com/?p=191#comment-299 Thanks, David. I've added the new tags you've suggested. Thanks, David. I’ve added the new tags you’ve suggested.

]]> By: David Kosofsky http://blog.wordnik.com/celadon/comment-page-1#comment-297 David Kosofsky Wed, 11 Nov 2009 04:35:19 +0000 http://blog.wordnik.com/?p=191#comment-297 Nice word that evokes beautiful images and memories. But I'm surprised to see that the TAGS you've used for it, while including `China', `Chinese', `Japan', and `Japanese' fail to include either `Korea' or `Korean'. The omission is surprising because celadon pottery is so closely associated with Korea, at least among art historians and collectors. This can be confirmed by a visit to wikipedia's article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celadon), where more words are devoted to Korean celadon than to either Japanese or Chinese, and of the 12 photos of celadon pieces, 6 are Korean. Beautiful ceramics aside, that wikipedia article is worth a visit for the fancy, and likely fanciful theories regarding the etymology of the word. Nice word that evokes beautiful images and memories. But I’m surprised to see that the TAGS you’ve used for it, while including `China’, `Chinese’, `Japan’, and `Japanese’ fail to include either `Korea’ or `Korean’. The omission is surprising because celadon pottery is so closely associated with Korea, at least among art historians and collectors. This can be confirmed by a visit to wikipedia’s article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celadon), where more words are devoted to Korean celadon than to either Japanese or Chinese, and of the 12 photos of celadon pieces, 6 are Korean.

Beautiful ceramics aside, that wikipedia article is worth a visit for the fancy, and likely fanciful theories regarding the etymology of the word.

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