H01 BLACK RAKU WARE (KURORAKU)KOICHAJAWAN
BOWLS FOR THICK TEA
Since each bowl is hand carved, not thrown or molded, the bowls you receive will be close to the pictures given but will vary due to the amount of glaze and how the fire in the kiln affects them. Measurements will also vary slightly.
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ICHI RAKU, NI HAGI, SAN KARATSU - FIRST IS RAKU, SECOND HAGI, THIRD KARATSU
H01 BLACK RAKU WARE (KURORAKU)
MAKER: From the workshop of SASAKI Shoraku
MEASURMENTS: 12 cm. wide X 6.5 cm. high
NOTE: If you wish a pure black raku in this shape then e-mail me
See the Facts Page for Care and Warnings about Raku Materials.
| Number H01 | BLACK RAKU WARE - KURORAKU KOICHAWAN | 5,500 YEN | + shipping |
MAKER: From the workshop of SASAKI Shoraku
MEASUREMENTS: 11.5 cm. wide X 8 cm. high
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| Number H02 | RED RAKU WARE - AKARAKU KOICHAWAN | 5,200 YEN | + shipping |
The following seven raku bowls are copies of ones Rikyu owned made by Chojiro, the first Raku potter. The seven are called RIKYU SHICHI-SHU.
MAKER: From the workshop of SASAKI Shoraku
MEASUREMENTS: about 11.5 cm. wide X 8 cm. high
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| Number H03 | HACHIBARAKIª@BOWL | 10,300 YEN | + shipping |
Also could be read "Dai Koku" - the god of prosperity for merchants. Rikyu's teacher, Takeno Jo-o lived in Daikoku-an. But tradition reads this name "oguro".
MAKER: From the workshop of SASAKI Shoraku
MEASUREMENTS: about 11.5 cm. wide X 8 cm. high
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| Number H04 | OGURO BOWL | 10,300 YEN | + shipping |
Toyobo was a Zen monk of Shinnyo-do temple, who was a good friend of Rikyu. He gave Toyobo this bowl and thus it was named for him. There is also a kettle shape and a tea house named after him. The original is an Important Cultural Property.
MAKER: From the workshop of SASAKI Shoraku
MEASUREMENTS: about 11.5 cm. wide X 8 cm. high
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| Number H05 | TOYOBO BOWL | 10,300 YEN | + shipping |
Said given this name because Rikyu, wanting to use it for a chaji, had it brought from his home in Sakai to Kyoto by way of a fast ship pulled up river by porters.
MAKER: From the workshop of SASAKI Shoraku
MEASUREMENTS: about 11.5 cm. wide X 8 cm. high
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| Number H06 | HAYAFUNE BOWL | 10,300 YEN | + shipping |
When this bowl was left behind at Chijiro's, Rikyu said "They all must be blind!" and thus the name stuck. "Konegyo" is the higherst status a blind monk could reach. The originals whereabouts is unknown.
MAKER: From the workshop of SASAKI Shoraku
MEASUREMENTS: about 11.5 cm. wide X 8 cm. high
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| Number H07 | KENGYO BOWL | 10,300 YEN | + shipping |
H08 KIMAMORI - "TREE GUARDIAN"
From the practice of leaving one persimmon on the tree to act as a "guardian" and ensure that a good crop would also grow next year. Rikyu had a number of Raku bowls made and asked his daimyo disciples to choose one each. This one was left behind. The original one went to the Sen family of Mushanokoji street but it was mostly destroyed in the great Tokyo earthquake of 1923. A piece was found and incorporated into a "new" red Raku bowl and is still a treasure of Mushanokoji Senke, used only for the installation of a new Grand Master.
MAKER: From the workshop of SASAKI Shoraku
MEASUREMENTS: about 11.5 cm. wide X 8 cm. high
See the Facts Page for Care and Warnings about Raku Materials.
| Number H08 | KIMAMORI BOWL | 10,300 YEN | + shipping |
Rinzai (Linchi) was the Chan master of Tang China whose lineage was brought to Japan by Yosai. The original was broken and lost.
MAKER: From the workshop of SASAKI Shoraku
MEASUREMENTS: about 11.5 cm. wide X 8 cm. high
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| Number H09 | RINZAI BOWL | 10,300 YEN | + shipping |
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The following bowls for thick tea are not raku style.
The original phrase was, "First Ido, second Raku, third Katatsu" but when Ido teabowls became impossible to obtain, its Japanese incarnation was the Hagi teabowls of Kyushu. The Korean potters who first were brought to Kyushu by Hideoshi's warlords, created excellent koicha jawan. A must-own tea bowl. Hagi was notched, says myth, to make a piece "imperfect" for the daimyo to give, allowing potters to sell it as seconds. But we do see notches on Korean bowls as well.
MAKER: From the workshop of HAYASHI Koyo
MEASUREMENTS: 12.7 cm diameter X 7.5 cm high
This one comes with a wood box!
| Number H10 | HAGI KOICHAJAWAN | 8,800 YEN | + shipping |
Gohon wares originated as Korean ceramics created for the Japanese daimyo class. Orders were sent via a design book, the "honorable book" thus the name. The pink and grey spotted effect also came to be called "gohon", no matter where a piece was made. Not only these types but any other types were made by the "honorable catalog."
MAKER: From the workshop of SHIMIZU Hisanobu
MEASUREMENTS: 11 cm. diameter X 9 cm. high
| Number H11 | GOHON KOICHAWAN | 23,500 YEN | + shipping |
H12 GOHON WARE WITH A DIVIDED FOOT (GOHON WARI KODAI)
Myth has it that the cuts in the foot were so a stack of bowls could be "tied" together, with clay pellets between the bowls, and thus more easily stacked in kilns and mass fired.
MAKER: From the workshop of SHIMIZU Hisanobu
MEASUREMENTS: 13 cm. diameter X 8.5 cm. high
| Number H12 | GOHON WARI KODAI BOWL | 23,500 YEN | + shipping |
H13 GOHON-MOSAN TYPE - MOSAN GOHON
NAKANIWA Mosan, from Tajima Japan died in 1694. He was a potter who was sent to Pusan, Korea to oversee the Japanese kilns there. He was there for 21 years and was considered the best potter to work the Pusan kilns. These kilns produced mostly tea wares for the daimyo. They produced the wares known generally as gohon. Mosan is known by the swab of slip on the inside.
MAKER: SHIMIZU Hisanobu
MEASUREMENTS: 11 cm. diameter X 9 cm. high
| Number H13 | MOSAN GOHON BOWL | 23,500 YEN | + shipping |
