{"product_id":"ninsei-style-fan-motif-matcha-bowl-by-tsuguji-kozan-gold-enamel-polychrome-tea-bowl-signed-wood-box","title":"Ninsei Style Fan Motif Matcha Bowl by Tsuguji Kozan — Gold Enamel Polychrome Tea Bowl, Signed Wood Box","description":"Experience Authentic Japan Art with this Ninsei Style Matcha Bowl. This Japanese Tea Ceremony Bowl serves as a Polychrome Overglaze Enamel Tea Bowl and Kyoto Ceramic Fan Motif Bowl, featuring Gold Enamel Chawan and Signed Artist Tea Bowl—a must-have for any Art Collector seeking Kyo-yaki Ninsei Tea Ware and Japanese Antique Chawan with Floral Fan Design.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]\u003cbr\u003e• Artist: Tsuguji Kozan (通次嵩山)\u003cbr\u003e• Technique: Ninsei-style (仁清写) polychrome overglaze enamels (色絵); gold enamel (金彩); raised enamel (盛絵); fan motif (扇面絵) design on white crackle-glaze ground\u003cbr\u003e• Era: 2000 – 2006 (estimated, contemporary studio ceramic)\u003cbr\u003e• Origin: Kyoto tradition, Japan (Kyo-yaki lineage)\u003cbr\u003e• Dimensions: Diameter approx. 12 cm, Height approx. 8 cm\u003cbr\u003e• Box: Original signed wooden presentation box (共箱) with artist inscription and red seal\u003cbr\u003e• Condition: Excellent — no chips, no cracks, no repairs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ CULTURAL \u0026amp; ARTISTIC INSIGHT ]\u003cbr\u003eThe Ninsei tradition was founded in seventeenth-century Kyoto by Nonomura Ninsei, a potter who transformed Japanese ceramics by marrying the pictorial luxuriance of court painting with the meditative vessel of the tea ceremony. His white-ground bowls, alive with gold and overglaze colour, were unprecedented — they brought the visual language of Heian aristocracy into the humble act of making and drinking tea. To work in the Ninsei style is to consciously place oneself within this lineage of courtly splendour.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTsuguji Kozan draws on that legacy with a bowl whose surface becomes a stage for seasonal poetry. Overlapping fans — the ōgi, an emblem of prosperity and the unfolding of future possibilities — carry within each blade a different flower: camellia, white peony, maple leaf, hagi, chrysanthemum, pine. The composition circles the bowl continuously so that every rotation of the hand during the tea ritual reveals a new landscape of colour and meaning. Gold dust (金砂子) drifts across the white crackle ground like snow on pale silk, and the raised enamel (盛絵) details give each petal a tactile presence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePoetic Line: \"Each fan opened reveals another season — the whole year held in a single turning hand.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ DEEP-DIVE COMMENTARY ]\u003cbr\u003eThe Ninsei style (仁清写) refers to ceramics that emulate the polychrome overglaze enamel technique (上絵付, uwae-tsuke) perfected by Nonomura Ninsei at his Omuro kiln in Kyoto during the Edo period. The defining characteristics are a white or off-white base glaze of refined purity, fine crazing (貫入, kannyu) across the surface, and the application of multiple coloured enamels — typically red, green, blue, gold, and black — fired at low temperature in a muffle kiln after the base glaze firing.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe fan motif (扇面絵, senmen-e) carries deep symbolic weight in Japanese art. Fans are associated with court culture and the Heian aesthetic of miyabi (雅び, aristocratic refinement), and the fan's radiating form was used by painters of the Tosa and Rimpa schools to frame miniature seasonal landscapes. On tea ceramics, the fan becomes a vessel within a vessel — a painting ground that also participates in the act of pouring and receiving tea.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this bowl, Tsuguji Kozan layers the fan motif with karahana (唐花, stylised Chinese flowers), maple leaves, and flowing water ribbons (流水文), weaving together the four seasons simultaneously. This is a deliberate aesthetic choice rooted in the Japanese concept of mitate (見立て) — seeing one thing within another — where holding a single bowl is to hold all seasons at once.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe gold work here employs two distinct techniques: kinji (金地, sprinkled gold dust ground) and kinsai (金彩, painted gold line detailing), with raised enamel dots and petal outlines adding dimensionality. The controlled precision of this layered application is a mark of skilled studio craft.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor collectors, a tea bowl in the Ninsei style within its original signed wooden box (共箱) represents a self-contained art object: the box inscription in the artist's own hand is itself a document of authorship and provenance. The pairing of box and bowl in pristine condition is increasingly rare in the secondary market, making this piece a coherent acquisition for both tea-ceremony use and display collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ 日本語解説 ]\u003cbr\u003e通次嵩山は、十七世紀に京都で野々村仁清が確立した仁清写しの伝統を受け継ぎながら、扇面絵という宮廷趣味の装飾世界を茶碗の曲面上に展開しています。白地に細かな貫入が走る素地は、仁清様式の本質である「清潔な空白」を体現し、その上に施された色絵・金彩・盛絵が四季の花々を凝縮した絵巻物のように連続して広がります。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e扇面絵は本来、平安貴族の雅びの象徴であり、扇の帖面ごとに異なる花が描かれることで、一つの茶碗を手にしながら春の椿、夏の牡丹、秋の紅葉、冬の松を同時に見立てることができます。この「見立て」の美意識こそ、茶道における道具との対話の核心です。金砂子の粒が白地に霞むように散り、盛絵の花弁が指先に微かな起伏を伝える——この触覚と視覚の二重性が、茶事の中でより深い静寂をもたらします。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e技法的には、素焼き後に低温の上絵窯で色絵具を定着させる上絵付けの工程において、緑・青・赤・褐色・白の複数の上絵具と金彩を精密に重ねており、特に金地（きんじ）の砂子散らしと金線描きの併用は熟練した工房技術の証です。共箱には作家の墨書と落款が残り、作品の来歴と作家性を一体として伝えます。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e状態は良好で、ヒビ・カケ・修復痕は一切なく、日常の薄茶点前にも飾り物としての展示にも耐えうる保存状態です。宮廷様式の華やかさと茶道具の実用美とを兼ね備えたこの茶碗は、仁清写しの現代的継承を示す一点として、コレクターの棚に相応しい存在感を持ちます。\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":61894499271026,"sku":"260602_a_2938","price":853.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/5680\/3698\/files\/m97446558473_1.jpg?v=1780361140","url":"https:\/\/checkout.themodernzenarchive.com\/products\/ninsei-style-fan-motif-matcha-bowl-by-tsuguji-kozan-gold-enamel-polychrome-tea-bowl-signed-wood-box","provider":"The Modern Zen Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}