{"product_id":"chashaku-tea-scoop-kanzan-three-node-ueda-gizan-daitokuji-kotooin","title":"Chashaku Tea Scoop 'Kanzan' – Three-Node – Ueda Gizan – Daitokuji Kotooin","description":"A three-node bamboo tea scoop (mitsu-bushi chashaku) inscribed with the name 'Kanzan' — the Tang-dynasty Zen poet-recluse whose image pervades Rinzai monastery culture. Crafted by Ueda Gizan, resident of Daitokuji Kotooin, Kyoto, and housed in its original wooden box.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e📦 [ BASIC DETAILS ]\u003cbr\u003e• Artist: Ueda Gizan (上田義山), Daitokuji Kotooin\u003cbr\u003e• Form: Mitsu-bushi chashaku (three-node tea scoop) — uncommon structural form\u003cbr\u003e• Material: Bamboo with three natural nodes\u003cbr\u003e• Mei (Inscription): 寒山 (Kanzan — Cold Mountain)\u003cbr\u003e• Box inscription: 高桐院 義山 (Kotooin, Gizan)\u003cbr\u003e• Includes: Lacquered tube, signed wooden box\u003cbr\u003e• Condition: Good; warm amber patina consistent with age\u003cbr\u003e• Period: ca. 2000–2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🏛️ [ CULTURAL INSIGHT ]\u003cbr\u003eDaitokuji Kotooin was founded in 1601 by Hosokawa Tadaoki, the daimyo whose family stood at the center of the world Sen no Rikyu built. Within the Daitokuji compound — the spiritual axis of Rinzai Zen and chanoyu — Kotooin holds a particular gravity. Its garden, its moss, its silence: these are not decorative. They carry the accumulated weight of four centuries of intentional living. A chashaku bearing the Kotooin seal does not merely come from a temple. It comes from a specific tradition of custody over what tea ceremony means.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔍 [ DEEP-DIVE ]\u003cbr\u003eThe mitsu-bushi (three-node) form is a departure from convention. A standard chashaku presents one or two nodes; three nodes introduces a visual rhythm, a pause before the scoop. Each node was once a point of growth, of arrested momentum — the bamboo stopped here, then again, then again. The mei 'Kanzan' (寒山, Cold Mountain) refers to the eccentric Tang monk-poet whose verses survive in translation and whose figure — wandering, laughing, beyond categorization — became a touchstone for Rinzai iconography. To name a tea scoop after Kanzan is to invoke that tradition of deliberate outsideness: the utensil that doesn't announce itself, but accumulates presence through stillness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e日本語解説\u003cbr\u003e大徳寺高桐院・上田義山師による三ツ節茶杓。銘「寒山」は唐代の禅詩僧に由来し、臨済禅の精神的象徴として知られる。高桐院は細川家ゆかりの名刹であり、千利休の精神的遺産と深く結びついた場所。三ツ節という特殊な形は通常の茶杓とは一線を画し、竹の節が三度刻む間合いに独特の美意識が宿る。共筒・木箱付き、保存状態良好。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e_A scoop made three times over — each node a breath held, then released._\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":61626882982258,"sku":"260228_a_2172","price":1196.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/5680\/3698\/files\/m20871974522_1.jpg?v=1772290302","url":"https:\/\/checkout.themodernzenarchive.com\/products\/chashaku-tea-scoop-kanzan-three-node-ueda-gizan-daitokuji-kotooin","provider":"The Modern Zen Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}