{"product_id":"hashimoto-shiun-ninsei-style-senmen-fan-tea-bowl-kyo-yaki-chawan-gold-iro-e","title":"Hashimoto Shiun Ninsei-Style Senmen Fan Tea Bowl Kyo-yaki Chawan Gold Iro-e","description":"A Kyo-yaki tea bowl by Hashimoto Shiun (橋本紫雲), rendered in the celebrated Ninsei-utsushi tradition. Overlapping senmen — folding fans — cascade across the vessel in overglaze enamel, each fan carrying its own world: vermillion fields with gold kinran-de lattice, autumn flora in delicate brushwork, landscape vignettes glimpsed through paper and bamboo ribs. A gold-speckled cloud band (ungen) crowns the rim. This Japanese Tea Ceremony Chawan embodies the Overglaze Enamel Painting of Kyoto's polychrome ceramic lineage — Fan Motif Pottery with Gold Accent Design and the unmistakable cultural weight of Ninsei tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Artist: Hashimoto Shiun (橋本紫雲) — Kyoto (Heian)\u003cbr\u003e• Technique: Ninsei-utsushi (仁清写) — overglaze enamel (iro-e) with gold\u003cbr\u003e• Design: Senmen-mon (扇面文) — folding fan motif\u003cbr\u003e• Era: Showa–Heisei period\u003cbr\u003e• Origin: Kyoto, Japan\u003cbr\u003e• Dimensions: Approx. H 8 cm × D 12 cm (3.1\" h × 4.7\" dia)\u003cbr\u003e• Box: Tomobako inscribed \"仁清写 扇面文 茶碗\" with \"平安 紫雲造\" and seal\u003cbr\u003e• Condition: Excellent — no chips, cracks, or repairs; gold and enamel intact\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ CULTURAL \u0026amp; ARTISTIC INSIGHT ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe senmen — folding fan — is not merely decorative. In Japanese visual culture, it functions as a frame within a frame: a portable window through which scenes are composed, isolated, and elevated. When painters from the Rinpa school and Tosa tradition placed landscapes and flowers within fan-shaped boundaries, they were acknowledging that all seeing is selective — that beauty exists within the limits we choose to impose. Shiun inherits this understanding and translates it to ceramic surface.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHashimoto Shiun works under the prefix \"Heian\" (平安), the ancient name for Kyoto, signaling his position within the city's continuous ceramic tradition. The Ninsei-utsushi designation places this bowl in direct dialogue with Nonomura Ninsei, the 17th-century master who invented overglaze enamel decoration on tea wares. To work in Ninsei's manner is not to copy but to carry forward — each generation reinterpreting the vocabulary of color, gold, and composition that Ninsei established.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fans overlap with choreographic precision. Vermillion fans bear gold kinran-de network patterns — textile motifs translated to ceramic — while others carry kikyō (bellflower), nadeshiko (pinks), and hagi (bush clover) in the muted palette of autumn. The gold-speckled ungen band at the rim floats above this composition like cloud cover, establishing atmospheric depth on a curved surface no larger than two palms. The interior remains serene — a clean cream ground with a gentle warmth at the tea pool, framed by a gold rim line.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*\"Each fan opens onto a different season. The bowl holds them all at once — time folded, not spent.\"*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ DEEP-DIVE COMMENTARY ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Ninsei-utsushi (仁清写) Tradition**: Nonomura Ninsei's contribution to Japanese ceramics cannot be overstated. Before Ninsei, tea bowls were valued for their restraint — the wabi aesthetic of Raku, Shino, and Bizen. Ninsei introduced an alternative: splendor disciplined by taste, color governed by composition, gold deployed not for opulence but for architectural punctuation. The Ninsei-utsushi tradition — \"in the manner of Ninsei\" — is not pastiche. It is a living conversation between contemporary potters and a 400-year-old vision of what ceramics can express. Shiun's entry into this conversation is fluent and assured.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Senmen-mon (扇面文) — Fan as Compositional Device**: The folding fan entered Japanese decorative arts as a format for painting during the Heian period and never left. Its tapered shape creates natural compositional tension — the narrow end compresses, the wide end expands — and this tension gives even simple subjects a dynamic quality. On a tea bowl, overlapping fans create rhythmic complexity: foreground fans partially obscure background fans, establishing spatial depth on what is, in truth, a flat surface bent into a cylinder. Shiun manages this layering with the confidence of someone who understands that confusion and complexity are not the same thing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Iro-e (色絵) Technique**: The polychrome overglaze enamel on this bowl required multiple firings. The base form was first glazed with a transparent or white ground, then fired. Enamel pigments — vermillion, green, blue, black — were painted onto the fired surface and fired again at lower temperatures. Gold was applied last, in a final firing that fused the metal to the glaze surface. Each color matures at a different temperature, demanding precise kiln control and a clear mental image of the finished work before the first brushstroke falls.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Ungen (雲元) Cloud Band**: The gold-speckled band encircling the upper rim is called ungen — a cloud or mist motif that appears across Japanese decorative arts from lacquerware to textiles. On this bowl, it serves a dual function: compositionally, it anchors the top of the design and prevents the fan motifs from floating upward into the rim; symbolically, it places the fans within a celestial atmosphere, as though the viewer were looking down through golden clouds at the scattered fans below.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Seasonal Vocabulary**: The autumn flowers painted on the fans — kikyō (Chinese bellflower), nadeshiko (fringed pink), and hagi (bush clover) — belong to the classical grouping of aki no nanakusa (seven grasses of autumn). Their presence on the fans specifies the bowl's seasonal register: this is a vessel for autumn tea gatherings, when the air cools and the garden turns. The interplay between the auspicious fan motif (celebration, good fortune) and the wistful autumn flora (transience, beauty passing) creates a characteristic Japanese tension — joy and melancholy coexisting in a single object.\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：橋本紫雲（平安 紫雲造）\u003cbr\u003e• 技法：仁清写・色絵金彩\u003cbr\u003e• 意匠：扇面文（せんめんもん）\u003cbr\u003e• 時代：昭和〜平成期\u003cbr\u003e• 産地：京都\u003cbr\u003e• 寸法：約口径12cm × 高さ8cm\u003cbr\u003e• 付属：共箱（「仁清写 扇面文 茶碗」銘・「平安 紫雲造」印）\u003cbr\u003e• 状態：良好 — 傷、ヒビ、直しなし・金彩健全\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e【解説】\u003cbr\u003e橋本紫雲作、仁清写・扇面文茶碗。温かみのあるクリーム色の素地に、重なり合う扇面が色絵金彩で華やかに展開する京焼の逸品です。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e扇面は、日本の装飾芸術において「枠の中の枠」として機能する独特のモチーフです。各扇にはそれぞれ異なる世界が描かれています——朱地に金襴手の菱繋文様、桔梗・撫子・萩など秋草の繊細な筆致、風景の断片。それらが重なり合い、器面に奥行きとリズムを生み出しています。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e口縁には金砂子の雲元帯が巡り、扇面文様の上方を大気のように覆います。内側は清潔なクリーム釉に金覆輪が施され、茶溜まりにほんのり温かみのある色が差しています。仁清以来の京焼色絵の伝統を、紫雲が確かな技術と感性で継承した一碗です。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e秋の茶席や慶事に相応しい華やかさを持ちつつ、構成の知性が過剰を抑えています。飾って美しく、点てて楽しい——京焼が「使う芸術」であることを静かに証明する茶碗です。\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*Fans unfold across the clay — each one a window onto a season already passing. Gold clouds hold them in place. The bowl remembers what the wind would scatter.*","brand":"The Modern Zen Archive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61605477646706,"sku":"260130_1955","price":641.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/5680\/3698\/files\/nano_598_1769930729072.jpg?v=1771374942","url":"https:\/\/checkout.themodernzenarchive.com\/products\/hashimoto-shiun-ninsei-style-senmen-fan-tea-bowl-kyo-yaki-chawan-gold-iro-e","provider":"The Modern Zen Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}