Tenmoku Hachi by Unokawa Kazumasa (a)

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Bowls Contemporary: item #758463

This wonderful hachi (bowl) is like a space vessel, not only because of the way it looks and seems to float in the cosmos, but also because it seems to contain all of it. A look inside the bowl can take you anywhere within the universe and if you gaze too long, your spirit might really get pulled into that fascinating void. Unokawa Kazumasa, born in Nara in 1952, not far from Kyoto, where the Ashikaga Shoguns, admirers of Tenmoku ware, resided, is a master craftsman of Tenmoku pottery, one of ... Click for details

Hagi Chawan by Matsuno Ryuji

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Bowls Contemporary: item #756966

Here is a splendid chawan (tea bowl) with silky crazed glaze and soft shades of pink. An excellent vessel for a spring tea ceremony, as winter’s ice is cracking and cherry blossoms are in bloom again. The smaller shape of the bowl adds to its delicate, feminine character. The chawan was made by a recognized potter named Matsuno Ryuji, born in Hagi in1951. He established a kiln called Ryokuei-gama in 1974, there. Matsumoto Ryuji is a true artist whose works include many large abstract and sc... Click for details

Obayashi Gozan Japanese pottery raku chawan cha no yu

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Bowls Pre 1970: item #755975

It is my understanding that Obayashi Gozan was the brother of the 13th or 14th Raku master, I think he married a Chinese woman and was pretty much banished to China for a while, later to return to Japan. Before this he made pottery, and since he was the elder brother, was in training to become the Raku master himself. If you know any more about him, please let me know and I will include it here. This is a beautiful Kuro-raku ( black ) with a fine red highlight, nice tong marks and a fine kod... Click for details

Suzuki Toshiyuki, an Oil-spot Temmoku Teabowl.

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Bowls New: item #754476
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This work is a work of the famous ceramist Suzuki Toshiyuki of Daisen ware.
Mr. Suzuki is the famous ceramist who studied under *3rdSuwa Sozan and established the wood-fired-in-reduction phenomenon basic theory of iron glaze in 1989.
He is the tradition skill holder specified from Tottori Prefecture (DENTOU-KOUGEI-SHI).... Click for details

Black Raku-yaki chawan by Inoue Shunpo

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Bowls Contemporary: item #752949

Black raku-yaki chawan (tea bowls) are some of the most mystical vessels in Japanese pottery. Born of the cooperation between Sen-no-rikyu, a Buddhist monk and tea master, and Chojiro, a Kyoto potter, the black bowl can be regarded as one of the cardinal chalices of the tea ceremony. This particular chawan has a very interesting shape, with the characteristic go-zan (five mountains) shaped mouth, in reference to the five main Zen temples of Kyoto (Tofuku-ji, Tenryuji, Shokokuji, Kenninji and M... Click for details

Kure Chawan by Shinichi

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Bowls Contemporary: item #752947

Kure is an ancient name for China, in Japanese. It is whence some of the first chawan (tea bowls) to enter Japan were made and this particular bowl is a rightful descendant to those classic vessels which influenced Japanese pottery and tea ceremony about 500 hundred years ago. The simple appearance of the bowl and its unpretentious character carry the spirit of the first tea masters, who favored such perfectly asymmetrical bowls; mirrors of the cosmos. The chawan is signed and in perfect cond... Click for details

Oni Hagi Chawan by Kawano Satoshi

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Bowls Contemporary: item #752946

This chawan (tea bowl) is a magnificent representative of one of the most spectacular genres of Japanese pottery: Oni Hagi (devil Hagi). That style was made popular by Miwa Jusetsu (the eleventh Miwa Kyusetsu), born in 1910, who has become Important Intangible Cultural Property (Living National Treasure) of Japan. This particular bowl was made by a potter named Kawano Satoshi, and it presents all the fantastic characteristics of the genre: the immaculate and tortured white glaze on a dark bod... Click for details

Suzuki Toshiyuki, an Ice split-Blue Porcelain Teabowl.

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Bowls New: item #752277
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This work is a work of the famous ceramist Suzuki Toshiyuki of Daisen ware.
Mr. Suzuki is the famous ceramist who studied under *3rdSuwa Sozan and established the wood-fired-in-reduction phenomenon basic theory of iron glaze in 1989.
He is the tradition skill holder specified from Tottori Prefecture (DENTOU-KOUGEI-SHI). ... Click for details

JPN,Suzuki Toshiyuki,a White Oil-spot Teabowl, YUTEKI.

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Bowls New: item #751934
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This work is a work of the famous ceramist Suzuki Toshiyuki of Daisen ware.
Mr. Suzuki is the famous ceramist who studied under *3rdSuwa Sozan and established the wood-fired-in-reduction phenomenon basic theory of iron glaze in 1989.
He is the tradition skill holder specified from Tottori Prefecture.... Click for details

HAGI, KANETA MASANAO, Hollowed-CHAWAN.

Artisan and Design: Ceramics: Pottery: Bowls New: item #751916
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This work is a work of 8th generation Ten Cho-Zan-kiln KANETA-MASANAO.
Masanao Kaneta who continues the original chinaware making work using "KURINUKI-technique" in HAGI.
"KURINUKI" holloweds and molds the inside of clay, after striking and rebuking the lump of the ground with a board.... Click for details