{"product_id":"korean-tea-bowl-by-kim-jeong-muk-donggok-kiln-tenmoku-influenced-flowing-glaze-hakogaki-box","title":"Korean Tea Bowl by Kim Jeong-muk, Donggok Kiln — Tenmoku-Influenced Flowing Glaze, Hakogaki Box","description":"A bowl that carries the ancient conversation between two peninsulas — the Korean hand, the Japanese ceremony, the shared silence of tea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ Cultural \u0026amp; Artistic Insight ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKorean pottery occupies a foundational place in the history of Japanese tea culture. During the 16th century, many of the most revered chawan in Japanese collections — Ido bowls, Kohiki, Oni-Shino — were Korean wares brought across the sea, then elevated to objects of ceremony and devotion. The flow was never one-directional. Korean potters shaped the Japanese aesthetic as profoundly as any native tradition.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKim Jeong-muk works at the Donggok Kiln, a name rooted in place — East Valley — carrying that particular gravity of site-specific craft. The tenmoku-influenced glaze on this bowl draws on a tradition that moved from Song China through Japan and back again across centuries, each firing adding a new layer of cultural translation. The flowing copper-brown and black tones pooling toward the foot are not decoration; they are the record of heat, gravity, and time working together.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKorean contemporary ceramics have drawn growing attention from international collectors. The work emerging from kilns like Donggok holds both technical rigor and a quieter philosophical register — a making that does not perform but simply is.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ Deep-Dive Commentary ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe hakogaki — the inscription on the accompanying wooden box — is not a minor detail. In the tea world, provenance moves through boxes as much as through the objects themselves. The written record of maker and piece creates a chain of custodianship: this bowl existed before you, and will exist after. The box inscription acknowledges that passage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe tenmoku glaze tradition itself tells a long story. Iron-rich glazes fired in reduction atmospheres produce the layered blacks and rusts visible here — colors that shift in natural light, that hold differently in winter morning versus afternoon sun. A bowl like this is not the same object twice. It asks to be held, turned, used. The glaze rewards attention that static viewing cannot provide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[ JAPANESE DESCRIPTION \/ 日本語解説 ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e韓国の東谷窯にて制作された、金正黙による天目風流釉茶碗。鉄釉が高温の還元炎の中で溶け流れ、漆黒の地に銅褐色の景色を描き出している。かつて16世紀の侘び茶の時代、朝鮮半島の陶器は日本の茶道具としての高い評価を受け、「高麗茶碗」として珍重された。この茶碗はその古い文脈に現代の作家の手が加わった一碗と言える。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e箱書き付きで、作者・窯の来歴を記録した共箱が揃っている。茶道の世界において箱書きは単なる包装ではなく、作品の来歴を語る重要な証左である。茶席での実用にも、棚に飾っての鑑賞にも対応する、存在感のある一碗。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Maker: Kim Jeong-muk (金正黙), Donggok Kiln (東谷窯), Korea\u003cbr\u003e- Glaze: Tenmoku-influenced flowing iron glaze, copper-brown and black tones\u003cbr\u003e- Condition: Good vintage condition, consistent with age and use; please review all photos\u003cbr\u003e- Box: Hakogaki wooden box included\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ Includes ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- Tea bowl (chawan)\u003cbr\u003e- Wooden box with hakogaki inscription\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":61738080403826,"sku":"260404_a_2628","price":604.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/5680\/3698\/files\/m64098580077_1.jpg?v=1775316981","url":"https:\/\/checkout.themodernzenarchive.com\/products\/korean-tea-bowl-by-kim-jeong-muk-donggok-kiln-tenmoku-influenced-flowing-glaze-hakogaki-box","provider":"The Modern Zen Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}