{"product_id":"nakamura-kaho-iro-e-bamboo-grove-tea-bowl-polychrome-kyo-yaki-chawan-with-tomobako","title":"Nakamura Kaho Iro-e Bamboo Grove Tea Bowl — Polychrome Kyo-yaki Chawan with Tomobako","description":"Experience authentic Japanese tea ceramics with this Iro-e Bamboo Grove Tea Bowl by Nakamura Kaho. This Polychrome Kyo-yaki Chawan serves as a Japanese Tea Bowl and Bamboo Grove Chawan, featuring Overglaze Enamel Art and Multi-Color Bamboo Design—a must-have for any Art Collector seeking Kyoto Polychrome Ceramics and Chikurin Tea Ceremony Art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Artist: Nakamura Kaho (中村華峰)\u003cbr\u003e• Technique: Iro-e (overglaze polychrome enamel) on Kyo-yaki body\u003cbr\u003e• Era: 2010s\u003cbr\u003e• Origin: Kyoto, Japan\u003cbr\u003e• Dimensions: Dia 12.5 cm × H 8.2 cm (4.9\" × 3.2\")\u003cbr\u003e• Box: Signed tomobako with seal, ukon (turmeric) cloth, artist biography\u003cbr\u003e• Condition: New \/ Unused — pristine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ CULTURAL \u0026amp; ARTISTIC INSIGHT ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA bamboo grove rendered without restraint. Nakamura Kaho covers the entire surface of this Kyo-yaki chawan in dense polychrome enamel — teal green stalks, deep indigo shadows, gold-touched leaves — creating a chikurin that surrounds the drinker entirely. The painting continues past the rim and into the interior, a detail that reveals an artist unwilling to leave any surface unwitnessed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe cream-white base glaze is characteristic of Kyo-yaki tradition, providing a luminous ground against which the overglaze enamels achieve their full chromatic presence. Bamboo — one of the Three Friends of Winter alongside pine and plum — carries associations of resilience, integrity, and quiet endurance. Its hollow center and segmented growth have made it a metaphor for the scholar-practitioner: strong without rigidity, empty without vacancy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNakamura Kaho's palette separates individual bamboo plants through color variation — teal, indigo, and gold occupying different depths within the grove. The effect is not flat pattern but spatial composition: you look into the grove, not merely at it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*\"The bamboo grove does not end at the rim. It continues where the eye cannot follow — into the interior, into the tea.\"*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ DEEP-DIVE COMMENTARY ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Chikurin (竹林) — Grove as Symbol**: The bamboo grove in Japanese culture carries dual associations. As one of the Saikan Sanyu (歳寒三友, Three Friends of Winter), bamboo represents constancy through hardship. As the setting of the Chinese literary gathering known as the Seven Sages of the Bamboo Grove (竹林の七賢), it represents the space where intellect meets nature — a retreat for contemplation beyond the concerns of the world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Polychrome Color Strategy**: Nakamura Kaho employs at least four distinct enamel colors within the bamboo composition: teal green for young culms, deep indigo-blue for mature leaves, gold for sunlit foliage, and touches of amber for aged stalks. This chromatic range transforms what could be a monochromatic subject into a study of light, age, and depth within a single species.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Interior Painting — An Unusual Commitment**: Most Kyo-yaki tea bowls confine iro-e decoration to the exterior. Nakamura Kaho extends the bamboo into the bowl's interior, painting leaves that drape over the rim and descend toward the well. This means the decoration is visible both when the bowl is displayed and when it is used — the drinker encounters bamboo leaves above the matcha. This dual-surface commitment doubles the painting labor and demonstrates a refusal to treat any part of the vessel as secondary.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Kyo-yaki Iro-e Firing Process**: Overglaze enamel requires multiple kiln passes. The base body is first bisque-fired, then covered in cream glaze and fired again. Each enamel color is painted and fired separately, starting with colors that tolerate higher temperatures and finishing with gold at the lowest temperature. A bowl of this complexity typically passes through the kiln four to five times.\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：中村華峰\u003cbr\u003e• 技法：色絵（上絵付）— 多色エナメル彩\u003cbr\u003e• 時代：2010年代\u003cbr\u003e• 産地：京都（京焼）\u003cbr\u003e• 寸法：径12.5cm × 高さ8.2cm\u003cbr\u003e• 付属：共箱（署名・落款）、鬱金布、略歴書\u003cbr\u003e• 状態：新品・未使用\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e【解説】\u003cbr\u003e器全面に竹林を色絵で描き尽くした華やかな京焼茶碗です。青緑の竹幹、藍色の陰影、金彩の笹葉が密に重なり合い、見込み（内側）にまで絵付けが及ぶ丁寧な仕事です。中村華峰の筆は一本一本の竹に色の違いを与え、林の奥行きと光の変化を感じさせます。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e竹は歳寒三友（松竹梅）のひとつとして、不撓不屈・清廉の象徴です。本作は通年の茶席でお使いいただける意匠であり、新品未使用の完璧な状態でお届けします。共箱・鬱金布・陶歴書付き。\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 grove that surrounds the drinker — teal, indigo, gold — continuing past the rim into the space where only the tea can see.*","brand":"The Modern Zen Archive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61596947251570,"sku":"260121_a_1624","price":1227.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/5680\/3698\/files\/m89155723708_1.jpg?v=1771214532","url":"https:\/\/checkout.themodernzenarchive.com\/products\/nakamura-kaho-iro-e-bamboo-grove-tea-bowl-polychrome-kyo-yaki-chawan-with-tomobako","provider":"The Modern Zen Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}