{"product_id":"chashaku-tea-scoop-hana-no-en-spotted-bamboo-daikyo-etsudo-myoshoji","title":"Chashaku Tea Scoop 'Hana no En' – Spotted Bamboo – Daikyo Etsudo – Myoshoji","description":"A spotted bamboo (shimi-dake) tea scoop bearing the mei 'Hana no En' — Chapter Eight of The Tale of Genji, a night of plum blossom, poetry, and music held beneath lantern light. Inscribed by Daikyo Etsudo of Myoshoji, presented in its original paulownia box with outer fabric case and bamboo tube.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e📦 [ BASIC DETAILS ]\u003cbr\u003e• Artist: Daikyo Etsudo (大協悦道), Myoshoji\u003cbr\u003e• Form: Chashaku (tea scoop)\u003cbr\u003e• Material: Shimi-dake (spotted bamboo \/ 斑竹) — natural speckled patterning\u003cbr\u003e• Mei (Inscription): 花の宴 (Hana no En — A Festival of Flowers, Genji Ch. 8)\u003cbr\u003e• Box inscription: 大協悦道\u003cbr\u003e• Includes: Bamboo tube, paulownia box, outer fabric case (full set)\u003cbr\u003e• Condition: Good; natural spotted surface intact and vivid\u003cbr\u003e• Period: ca. 2000–2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🏛️ [ CULTURAL INSIGHT ]\u003cbr\u003e'Hana no En' is the eighth chapter of Genji Monogatari — a chapter defined not by drama but by atmosphere: a court banquet under cherry blossoms, poems exchanged in the dark, the particular sorrow of beauty that will not hold. For a tea master to assign this name to a scoop is to ask every future bowl of tea to carry that atmosphere with it. The shimi-dake (spotted bamboo) extends the literary choice into material form: no two pieces of shimi-dake are identical, each surface marked by the bamboo's own history of light and moisture. The scoop does not illustrate the chapter. It embodies the principle — that what is marked by time is not diminished by it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔍 [ DEEP-DIVE ]\u003cbr\u003eShimi-dake is bamboo that has developed irregular pigmentation through natural processes — moisture, age, the particular conditions of its growth. In the world of chashaku, this surface variation is not a defect but a form of authorship: the material participated in making the object what it is. Daikyo Etsudo's choice to pair this bamboo with a mei drawn from Genji shows a layered intelligence — the literary allusion provides cultural weight, while the material provides emotional silence. Together they produce an object that operates on two registers at once: the classical and the natural, the named and the unmarked.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e日本語解説\u003cbr\u003e明星寺・大協悦道師による銘「花の宴」茶杓。源氏物語第八帖に由来する銘は、春夜の宴と儚い美の象徴。素材のしみ竹（斑竹）は天然の斑模様を持ち、一本一本の表情が異なる。竹そのものが時間の痕跡を纏った存在であり、銘の詩的世界観と響き合う。外箱（布製）・共箱・共筒の完全セット。保存状態良好。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_The scoop is marked the way memory marks a night — unevenly, indelibly._\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ SHIPPING \u0026amp; PACKAGING ]\u003cbr\u003e• Dispatch: Within 1-6 business days\u003cbr\u003e• Carrier: Japan Post EMS \/ UPS (with tracking)\u003cbr\u003e• Packaging: Carefully wrapped with protective materials","brand":"The Modern Zen Archive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61626883408242,"sku":"260228_a_2173","price":711.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/5680\/3698\/files\/m47773478251_1.jpg?v=1772290359","url":"https:\/\/checkout.themodernzenarchive.com\/products\/chashaku-tea-scoop-hana-no-en-spotted-bamboo-daikyo-etsudo-myoshoji","provider":"The Modern Zen Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}