Kenzan-Style Morning Glory Flat Tea Bowl by Hashimoto Shiunn — Summer Chawan, Tomobako

A hira-chawan painted after Ogata Kenzan's morning glory tradition, made by Hashimoto Shiunn. Red, blue, teal, and white flowers climb the outer wall in full summer voice, their gold-lined petals catching light with quiet intensity. The wide shallow form holds the moment of a summer tea; the interior's crackled white glaze opens into silence beneath the blooms. With signed tomobako.

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▪ ITEM DETAILS
• Object: Hira-chawan (flat tea bowl)
• Style: Kenzan-utsushi (乾山写) — Morning glory (朝顔文) decoration
• Potter: 橋本紫雲 (Hashimoto Shiunn)
• Diameter: approx. 13.5 cm / Height: approx. 5.6 cm
• Decoration: Red, blue, teal, and white morning glories with gold line detailing, interior and exterior
• Glaze: White crackle glaze ground; dark iron rim
• Foot: Pink clay foot ring
• Condition: No chips or cracks; three circular tea-seasoning marks on interior floor — evidence of use, consistent with age
• Provenance: Signed tomobako

▪ CULTURAL CONTEXT
Ogata Kenzan (1663–1743) — painter, potter, poet, younger brother of Ogata Korin — gave Japanese ceramics its most vividly literary sensibility. His morning glory bowls established a template for seasonal specificity in tea: the hira-chawan (flat bowl) for summer, its wide opening releasing the heat of freshly whisked tea, its motifs marking the hour of dawn when the asagao blooms. Hashimoto Shiunn works within this inheritance — the polychrome palette echoes Kenzan's original enameled surfaces, while the wide crackle interior carries a quality the originals also prized: the feeling of looking at something that holds time inside it.

▪ COLLECTOR'S NOTE
The three faint circular tea-seasoning stains on the interior floor are the record of actual use — each ring is the circumference of a tea bowl placed inside this one during storage or ceremony preparation. The gold line detailing on the petals and leaves is delicate and intact. The exterior wall carries the most fully realized painting: red blooms on the left, blue on the right, white unfurling between them, with the teal leaf foliage filling the intervals with movement. On the outer surface, gold dust is scattered across the white crackle ground — a technique associated with Kenzan and Rinpa's decorative exuberance.

▪ 日本語説明
橋本紫雲造、乾山写朝顔文平茶碗。乾山が確立した夏の茶碗の様式 — 朝顔文・平形・絵画的な意匠 — を丁寧に写している。外面には赤・青・白の朝顔が金線の輪郭を伴って描かれ、緑の葉が夏の生命感を添える。外面白釉面に金彩が散る。内面は白の貫入釉、縁は鉄釉で引き締める。高台は桃色の素地。内面底に三箇所の茶渋輪が残り、使用の歴史を物語る。共箱は橋本紫雲の署名入り。夏の茶事にこれ以上ふさわしい一碗はない。

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