{"product_id":"hagi-ware-chawan-artist-piece-soft-pink-glaze-signed-box","title":"Hagi Ware Chawan — Artist Piece, Soft Pink Glaze, Signed Box","description":"Hagi ware matcha bowl by a named artist. Soft pink-beige glaze with crawling surface texture, flared form, rough foot ring. Signed box with purple-cord binding. A wabi-sabi chawan of understated presence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCollectors seeking Hagi chawan, wabi-sabi tea bowl, Japanese stoneware matcha bowl, pink glaze chawan, or Hagi ware with signed box will find this bowl holds the quiet of its tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e【 DETAILS 】\u003cbr\u003e• Technique: Hagi-yaki (Hagi ware) — feldspathic glaze with crawling surface\u003cbr\u003e• Form: Classic Hagi form — wide mouth, flared walls, rough tatami-cut foot\u003cbr\u003e• Glaze: Soft pink-beige with surface crawling (yure); characteristic Hagi wabi surface\u003cbr\u003e• Condition: Excellent. No chips, cracks, or restoration\u003cbr\u003e• Provenance: Signed wooden tomobako with purple-cord binding\u003cbr\u003e• Dimensions: Diameter approx. 14.2 cm \/ Height approx. 8.5 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e【 CULTURAL INSIGHT 】\u003cbr\u003eAmong the ceramics beloved by tea masters, Hagi ware holds a singular place. The ranking — Ichi-Raku, Ni-Hagi, San-Karatsu (First Raku, Second Hagi, Third Karatsu) — is not merely historical preference but a statement about what tea values in a vessel: porous clay that holds warmth; surfaces that change with use; glazes that neither compete nor retreat. The pink-beige tone of Hagi is not decorative — it is structural, the result of local Mishima and Daido clay combined with straw ash glaze, fired to a temperature where the glaze retreats into islands of crawling texture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e【 DEEP DIVE 】\u003cbr\u003eThe crawling glaze effect on this bowl — where the surface breaks into a fine textured pattern — is the result of differential shrinkage between clay body and glaze during cooling. In Hagi ware, this is not a flaw but a cultivated outcome, a surface that records the thermal event of the kiln. Over years of tea use, Hagi bowls develop a phenomenon called nanahake no kise: the tea stains the porous clay through the glaze, shifting the color toward amber and rust in a transformation unique to each bowl's use. A Hagi chawan is not finished when it leaves the kiln. It is finished when it is used.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e---\u003cbr\u003e【 萩焼 作家物 抹茶碗 】\u003cbr\u003e萩焼の作家物茶碗。ピンク萩釉に景色あるわび碗。荒削りな高台と釉薬の景色が茶の湯の美意識を体現。紫紐の共箱付き。直径約14.2cm、高さ約8.5cm。\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":61687472947570,"sku":"260318_a_2511","price":629.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/5680\/3698\/files\/m89852303834_1.jpg?v=1774104899","url":"https:\/\/checkout.themodernzenarchive.com\/products\/hagi-ware-chawan-artist-piece-soft-pink-glaze-signed-box","provider":"The Modern Zen Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}