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Edo period Japanese Shino Chawan Tea Bowl browse these categories for related items... All Items: Archives:Regional Art:Asian:Japanese: Pre 1800: item # 666145 Please refer to our stock # TCR2161 when inquiring.
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| A fine 17th-18th century Kutsugata E-Shino Chawan, the pitted white glaze decorated pell-mell with slashes of gray outside, and what intimates three tumbling balls of yarn within. Two excellent dark gold repairs glint on the inner rim, a testament to age and use equaling the dark color filling the perforated and crackled once white glaze. The large basin is roughly formed, the artists fingers dragging furrows into the sides and the thick shino glaze running in uneven drips both within and without. The chawan is roughly 6-3/4 inches (17 cm) diameter, 2-1/2 inches (6 cm) tall and in fine condition, the above stated repairs adding to the aura. A bowl steeped in history with a bold and powerful presence, certain to add flavor to the tea served, it comes enclosed in an age darkened wooden box. The Kutsugata shape originated With Oribe in the Mino tradtion. I have seen other versions (e-karatsu and hagi) as well, but all later period pieces. Rikkyu liked the Korean style bowls, small and simple in form. The kutsugata is much more sutiable to the flamboyant Oribe style. Here is a bit of borrowed prose from the Omotesenke tea site: Furuta Oribe was a retainer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, so he learned chanoyu from Sen no Rikyu from an early age. After Rikyu's death Oribe became the leading tea master and also became tea advisor to the second Shogun of the Tokugawa family, Hidetada (1579-1632). However, Oribe, like Rikyu, accepted no authority and was richly and freely creative. In particular Oribe's interest in the spirit of kabuki, which was popular at the time and which had an unfixed form and unusual style, became part of his chanoyu. It can be seen in his boldly misshapen tea bowls, for example. Oribe's taste for this kind of unbalance was out of keeping with the new age. After the Osaka summer encampment he was ordered to commit ritual suicide by Tokugawa Hidetada. Oribe's disciple was Kobori Enshu. If you hold the bowl you will notice one side comes out in a sharper arc. This is the part of the bowl from which one would drink (going from memory it would be as if drinking from the bowl in picture four). The swipe of raw red clay and finger marks add character to the bowl, and you might imagine the drinkers surprise as tipping the bowl up the swatch of color appears beyond the receding green foam. This bowl is truly a masterpiece. | ||||||||||||
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