{"product_id":"hagi-biwa-glaze-tea-bowl-by-masuno-touka-loquat-color-chawan-with-signed-box","title":"Hagi Biwa Glaze Tea Bowl by Masuno Touka - Loquat Color Chawan with Signed Box","description":"Experience authentic Japanese tea culture with this Hagi Biwa Glaze Tea Bowl by Masuno Touka. This Hagi Ware Tea Bowl serves as a Masuno Touka Pottery and Biwa Glaze Chawan, featuring Warm Loquat Color aesthetics and Kannyu Crackle Glaze tradition—a must-have for any Art Collector seeking Yamaguchi Ceramics and Wabi Sabi Tea Bowl.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Artist: Masuno Touka (増野陶花)\u003cbr\u003e• Technique: Hagi ware (萩焼) — wheel-thrown stoneware with biwa (loquat) glaze\u003cbr\u003e• Era: Contemporary (Heisei–Reiwa period)\u003cbr\u003e• Origin: Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan\u003cbr\u003e• Dimensions: Diameter approx. 13.5 cm × Height approx. 8 cm (5.3\" × 3.1\")\u003cbr\u003e• Box: Signed tomobako inscribed 「萩焼 茶盌」 with 「増野陶花作」 signature and red seal\u003cbr\u003e• Condition: Good — no chips, cracks, or repairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ CULTURAL \u0026amp; ARTISTIC INSIGHT ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBiwa-shoku — loquat color. In Japan, naming a glaze after a fruit is not metaphor. It is precision. The warm salmon-pink to earthy tan spectrum of this bowl comes from iron in the Hagi clay body blushing through a feldspar-rich glaze during firing. The color is not applied. It rises from within, the way a loquat ripens from pale green to warm gold without any external signal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHagi ware has been ranked among the most esteemed ceramics for tea since the early Edo period: 「一楽二萩三唐津」 (first Raku, second Hagi, third Karatsu). This hierarchy speaks not to price or technique but to the relationship between vessel and tea practitioner. Hagi's porous body absorbs tea over years of use, and the fine crackle network gradually darkens — the celebrated 「萩の七化け」 (Seven Changes of Hagi). A new Hagi bowl is a beginning, not a finished object.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe open, elegantly flared form of this bowl — wider at the rim, tapering to a small foot — invites the hands to cradle and the eye to rest on the shifting tones of the glaze.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*\"Color that rises from the clay is not decoration. It is confession.\"*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ DEEP-DIVE COMMENTARY ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Biwa Glaze — The Color of Patience**: Biwa (loquat) glaze in Hagi ware is not a recipe that can be precisely replicated. It emerges from a specific balance of iron content in the clay, feldspar in the glaze, and reduction atmosphere in the kiln. The warm salmon-pink shifts to earthy tan depending on thickness, temperature gradient, and where the flame touched. Each bowl becomes a topographic record of its own firing — no two surfaces identical.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**The Flared Form**: This bowl's profile — wide at the rim, narrowing to a compact foot — descends from a classical lineage of tea bowl shapes suited to usucha (thin tea) preparation. The generous opening allows the chasen (tea whisk) to move freely, while the tapered base concentrates the tea for drinking. The bell-shaped profile visible from beneath confirms careful attention to the relationship between interior volume and external form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Kannyu as Living Surface**: The fine crackle network covering this bowl is not a defect but a defining feature of Hagi ware. Kannyu (貫入) forms because the clay body and glaze shrink at different rates during cooling. Over time, tea seeps into these microscopic channels, gradually darkening the network and transforming the bowl's appearance. Practitioners describe choosing a Hagi bowl as selecting a companion for decades of shared practice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**The Impressed Seal**: The circular stamp visible on the foot ring is Masuno Touka's kiln mark — a seal pressed into the raw clay before firing. This practice connects to a centuries-old tradition of kiln identification and represents the potter's personal authorship inscribed directly into the body of the work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ 日本語解説 ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e【基本情報】\u003cbr\u003e• 作家：増野陶花\u003cbr\u003e• 技法：萩焼（琵琶釉）\u003cbr\u003e• 時代：現代（平成～令和）\u003cbr\u003e• 産地：山口県萩市\u003cbr\u003e• 寸法：口径約13.5cm × 高さ約8cm\u003cbr\u003e• 付属：共箱（「萩焼 茶盌」箱書き・「増野陶花作」署名・朱印）\u003cbr\u003e• 状態：良好\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e【解説】\u003cbr\u003e増野陶花作の萩焼茶盌です。琵琶色（びわいろ）の釉薬が全体を包み、柔らかなサーモンピンクから土色のタン色へと穏やかに変化する色彩が特徴的です。全面に繊細な貫入が走り、萩焼の「七化け」を楽しむことができる一盌です。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e口縁が広く開き、高台に向かって絞れる優美なフレア形。裏返すと釣鐘形のプロフィールが現れ、内側には釉を通して赤褐色の土味が感じられます。高台には印判が押され、作家の筛の証。共箱に「萩焼 茶盌 \/ 増野陶花作」の箱書きと朱印あり。薫りのある柔らかな色合いが、日々の茶事に温かみを添える一盌です。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*Loquat ripens without announcement. So does this bowl — slowly, in the hands of the one who drinks.*","brand":"The Modern Zen Archive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61619172540786,"sku":"260222_a_2071","price":734.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/5680\/3698\/files\/m16895614439_1.jpg?v=1771995060","url":"https:\/\/checkout.themodernzenarchive.com\/products\/hagi-biwa-glaze-tea-bowl-by-masuno-touka-loquat-color-chawan-with-signed-box","provider":"The Modern Zen Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}