{"product_id":"mukugi-eizo-gosu-floral-tea-bowl-kawai-kanjiro-mingei-tradition-chawan","title":"Mukugi Eizo Gosu Floral Tea Bowl - Kawai Kanjiro Mingei Tradition Chawan","description":"Experience authentic Japanese mingei ceramics with this Mukugi Eizo Gosu Floral Tea Bowl. This Kawai Kanjiro School Chawan serves as a Folk Craft Ceramic and Gosu Cobalt Blue Pottery, featuring Floral Stoneware Art and Kyoto Mingei Tradition—a must-have for any Art Collector seeking Japanese Tea Bowls and Wabi Sabi Ceramics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Artist: Mukugi Eizo (椋木英三), also known as Mukugi Shunsui (椋木春水)\u003cbr\u003e• Type: Chawan (茶碗) — tea bowl\u003cbr\u003e• Technique: Gosu hanae (呉須花絵) — cobalt blue floral painting on stoneware\u003cbr\u003e• Era: Showa–Heisei period\u003cbr\u003e• Origin: Kyoto, Kawai Kanjiro mingei lineage\u003cbr\u003e• Dimensions: Dia approx. 12.1 cm × H approx. 9.2 cm\u003cbr\u003e• Box: Tomobako (signed wooden box)\u003cbr\u003e• Condition: Excellent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ CULTURAL \u0026amp; ARTISTIC INSIGHT ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKawai Kanjiro remains one of the foundational figures of Japan's mingei movement — an artist who believed that true beauty arises not from decoration but from honest making. Mukugi Eizo inherited this conviction directly, working within the Kawai school to produce ceramics where function and expression are inseparable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis chawan carries the full vocabulary of the Kawai tradition: gosu cobalt painted over reserved slip panels, iron-red accents grounding the composition, and a robust stoneware body that communicates durability through its weight and form. The floral motifs are painted with a controlled looseness — neither rigid nor careless — that marks the hand of a practiced mingei potter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat distinguishes Mukugi's work is a softness within the structural confidence. The bowl is sturdy and grounded, yet the brushwork carries warmth. This is folk craft at its most considered: generous without excess.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*\"The pot that serves tea every morning knows more about beauty than the one that sits behind glass.\"*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ DEEP-DIVE COMMENTARY ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Kawai Kanjiro's Legacy**: Kawai Kanjiro, alongside Hamada Shoji and Yanagi Soetsu, defined Japan's mingei aesthetic. His students and successors carry forward a philosophy where the maker's ego yields to the object's purpose. Mukugi Eizo's work sits firmly within this inheritance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Gosu Technique**: Gosu (呉須) refers to cobalt oxide pigment applied under or over glaze, producing deep blue tones after firing. Combined with iron-red and copper accents on reserved white slip panels, this decorative approach is characteristic of the Kawai school's embrace of Korean and Chinese ceramic traditions filtered through Japanese folk sensibility.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Form and Function**: The rounded, thick-walled body with a defined foot ring is built for daily tea practice. The weight settles into the hands with quiet authority. This is a bowl made to be used — its beauty deepens with each encounter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Tomobako Authentication**: The signed wooden box bears the artist's name \"英三\" with red seal, confirming provenance within the Kawai-school mingei tradition.\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：椋木英三（椋木春水）\u003cbr\u003e• 技法：呉須花絵（コバルト藍絵付）\u003cbr\u003e• 時代：昭和〜平成\u003cbr\u003e• 産地：京都・河井寛次郎系統\u003cbr\u003e• 寸法：径 約12.1cm × 高さ 約9.2cm\u003cbr\u003e• 付属：共箱（署名入り）\u003cbr\u003e• 状態：良好\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e【解説】\u003cbr\u003e河井寛次郎の作風をよく受け継いだ、がっちりとした器体の茶碗です。呉須のコバルトブルーと鉄赤の花絵が白泥のパネル上に描かれ、民藝茶碗の典型的な意匠を示しています。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e造形も絵付もどこか柔和な印象を受ける作品で、椋木英三の個性が感じられます。骨太でありながら優しさを宿す——民藝の精神を体現した一碗です。手に取ると、その重みと温かみが日常の茶の時間にふさわしい器であることを教えてくれます。\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*A bowl shaped by conviction — where folk craft becomes quiet declaration.*","brand":"The Modern Zen Archive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61591641915762,"sku":"260113_a_1487","price":943.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/5680\/3698\/files\/m25295537478_1.jpg?v=1770951233","url":"https:\/\/checkout.themodernzenarchive.com\/products\/mukugi-eizo-gosu-floral-tea-bowl-kawai-kanjiro-mingei-tradition-chawan","provider":"The Modern Zen Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}