Hara Gozan tenmoku chawan with Ohi amber glaze — warm golden surface, tenmoku form, signed tomobako — handcrafted Japanese tea bowl, chado, matcha, wabi-sabi, amber glaze pottery, ohi yaki, antique ceramic, unique glaze combination.
🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ] • Artist: Hara Gozan (原呉山) — Tier 3 ceramic artist • Type: Chawan (茶碗) tea bowl — tenmoku (天目) form • Glaze: Ohi-glaze (大樋釉) in warm amber / golden tone applied to tenmoku form — an unusual and distinctive combination • Surface: Amber glaze pools and varies in density across the bowl, creating organic texture • Condition: Good — glaze surface fully intact, warm tones preserved • Provenance: Signed tomobako (共箱) reading 大樋釉 天目 茶碗 陶偶 呉山造 • Dimensions: H approx. 7 cm × D approx. 13.8 cm
🔹 [ CULTURAL INSIGHT ] The tenmoku form descends from Chinese Jian ware — deep, steep walls drawing the eye downward, concentrating the tea, focusing the mind. Ohi ware, by contrast, belongs entirely to Kanazawa: soft, amber, warm as a coal ember, the glaze of a school that has served the Ura Senke tradition for over 350 years. Gozan's decision to pour Ohi's warmth into tenmoku's severity is not a contradiction. It is a conversation between two silences. The bowl holds both lineages at once.
🔹 [ DEEP-DIVE ] The tomobako inscription — 大樋釉 天目 茶碗 陶偶 呉山造 — reads as a statement of creative intent. 陶偶 (ceramic figure / ceramic being) is an unusual self-designation, suggesting Gozan understood this piece as something between object and presence. The amber Ohi glaze, which typically appears on soft, rounded Ohi forms, here pools against the steep tenmoku walls with a quality that feels almost gravitational — denser at the foot, lighter at the rim, never uniform. Wide mouth, shallow relative to height: the bowl invites rather than excludes, warm rather than austere. A tenmoku that does not intimidate.
🔹 [ SHIPPING & PACKAGING ] • Dispatch: Within 1-6 business days • Carrier: Japan Post EMS / UPS (with tracking) • Packaging: Carefully wrapped with protective materials
