{"product_id":"edo-period-ko-iga-chawan-ancient-iga-kiln-ash-glaze-tea-bowl-with-bidoro-drips-protective-wooden-box","title":"Iga-Style Wood-Fired Chawan with Ash-Glaze Drips — Japanese Tea Bowl with Protective Wooden Box","description":"\u003cp\u003eA wood-fired tea bowl in the Iga ceramic tradition, with three vertical bidoro drips of ochre-olive natural ash glaze running down a coarse iron-rich body. The clay surface shows kiln-flash, scorching, and the rough granular texture characteristic of high-temperature wood firing. Likely 20th century, in the style of the Iga kiln lineage. Seller-described as late-Edo-period Ko-Iga; we have not independently verified that attribution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe accompanying wooden box is explicitly a \u003cstrong\u003e用心箱 (yōjin-bako — protective box)\u003c\/strong\u003e, made for safekeeping after the fact rather than as the maker's original box. The lid is inscribed \"古伊賀 茶盌\". By the seller's own description, the box is a later attribution document, not an authentication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eForm\u003c\/strong\u003e: Chawan (茶碗) — matcha tea bowl, slightly waisted\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eMaterial \/ Technique\u003c\/strong\u003e: Iron-rich stoneware in the Iga tradition; natural ash-glaze drips (bidoro, ビードロ) from wood-fired kiln; coarse grit and fire-scorch on body\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLikely period\u003c\/strong\u003e: 20th century, in the style of Iga kiln lineage. Seller-described as late-Edo Ko-Iga; not independently authenticated.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eOrigin\u003c\/strong\u003e: Iga style, attributed by seller to Iga (present-day Mie Prefecture), Japan\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions\u003c\/strong\u003e: Height approx. 8.1 cm, Width approx. 12.4 cm\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBox\u003c\/strong\u003e: \u003cem\u003eYōjin-bako\u003c\/em\u003e (用心箱) — protective wooden box explicitly described by the seller as a later protective box, not a maker's original. Inscribed 「古伊賀 茶盌」 with seal.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCondition\u003c\/strong\u003e: Surface consistent with wood-fired Iga-style work; characteristic coarse skin (肌); no chips or structural damage observed.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🔹 [ ABOUT IGA WARE AND THIS PIECE ]\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIga ware (伊賀焼), produced in the Iga region (Mie Prefecture), is one of Japan's classical stoneware traditions, dating to the Heian period. Its most-celebrated phase is the Momoyama through early-Edo era, when tea masters such as Furuta Oribe commissioned Iga pieces precisely for their dramatically deformed forms, white pegmatite-studded bodies, and the cascading emerald-green bidoro drips that resulted from extended anagama firings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis bowl participates in that lineage but does not, on our reading, show the specific markers of Momoyama through early-Edo Ko-Iga. The body is iron-rich rather than the characteristic white-pegmatite Iga clay; the bidoro is ochre-olive rather than emerald; the form is controlled rather than violently distorted. These are the features that distinguish a 20th-century Iga-style chawan from a 17th-century one — and the difference matters, because the two occupy entirely different valuation bands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat the piece does show is wood-fired Iga character: kiln-flash and ash deposition consistent with extended wood firing, and a form that sits comfortably in the lineage of Iga tea-bowl making. The bowl is an Iga-style chawan in the tradition the box inscription invokes — not, on our reading, from the era the seller's title claims.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🔹 [ ATTRIBUTION NOTE ]\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIndependent authentication has not been performed. Attribution rests on the seller's text and a wooden box that the seller themselves designate as a protective box (用心箱), not an original maker's box. Buyers should evaluate the piece against their own attribution criteria.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🔹 [ 日本語解説 ]\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e素地・釉薬・焼成の景色いずれも、伊賀の系譜の中にある薪窯焼成の特徴を備えています。三本のビードロ垂れと荒い土肌、火色の景色は伊賀の語彙そのもの。ただし、桃山〜江戸初期の「古伊賀」が示すべき白いペグマタイト粒（石はぜ）、エメラルドグリーンの強烈なビードロ、織部好みの破調の歪み、これらは確認できません。私たちの読みでは、二十世紀の伊賀（または伊賀風）の手取り作品と判断します。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e付属の用心箱は、出品者自身が「用心箱」と明記しているとおり、共箱ではなく後年に当てがわれた保護箱です。蓋には「古伊賀 茶盌」の墨書がありますが、作者の自筆ではなく、後の所有者による帰属記述と扱います。出品者の「江戸後期 古伊賀」記載は独立には検証していません。\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch3\u003e🔹 [ SHIPPING \u0026amp; PACKAGING ]\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDispatch: Within 1–6 business days\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCarrier: Japan Post EMS \/ UPS (with tracking)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePackaging: Carefully wrapped with protective materials\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"The Modern Zen Archive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61880394449266,"sku":"260526_a_2899","price":1574.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/5680\/3698\/files\/2JPVSrRYMXCbfDoeuYpYWS.jpg?v=1779795177","url":"https:\/\/checkout.themodernzenarchive.com\/products\/edo-period-ko-iga-chawan-ancient-iga-kiln-ash-glaze-tea-bowl-with-bidoro-drips-protective-wooden-box","provider":"The Modern Zen Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}