Bamboo after rain. The leaves hold water just long enough to release it.
Nakamura Soetsu covered this naka-natsume entirely in bamboo — dense, enveloping, unhurried. Gold leaves in layered clusters across the body, with brown nashiji accents suggesting the varied light that moves through a grove. Dewdrops scatter among them, each one a held pause before falling. The black lacquer ground gives the composition nowhere to recede. It presses forward, quietly.
H6.8 cm, D6.7 cm. Interior black lacquer. Standard naka-natsume form suited to most thin-tea practice.
The sasa-tsuyu motif appears across tea ceramics and lacquerware both — bamboo for resilience, dew for impermanence. Here they coexist without tension.
Condition: Very good. Wear appropriate to age. Tomobako included.
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