{"product_id":"nonomura-tankan-bamboo-chashaku-tea-scoop-daitoku-ji-inscription-sennen-midori","title":"Nonomura Tankan Bamboo Chashaku Tea Scoop — Daitoku-ji Inscription Sennen Midori","description":"A bamboo chashaku carved by Nonomura Tankan, bearing the poetic name \"Sennen Midori\" (Thousand-Year Green) inscribed by Hasegawa Kanshū of Daitoku-ji. The pale, warm-toned bamboo carries a gentle curve — a form shaped by the discipline of tea ceremony utensils and the quiet hand of a dedicated craftsman. This Japanese tea scoop arrives with its original bamboo tsutsu case, calligraphy intact, connecting the object to the living lineage of Zen tea culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e🔸 BASIC DETAILS\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e• Artist: Nonomura Tankan (野々村淡完)\u003cbr\u003e• Inscription: Hasegawa Kanshū (長谷川寛州), Murasakino Daitoku-ji\u003cbr\u003e• Poetic Name: 千年緑 — Sennen Midori (Thousand-Year Green)\u003cbr\u003e• Material: Natural bamboo\u003cbr\u003e• Includes: Original bamboo tsutsu (tube case) with calligraphy\u003cbr\u003e• Origin: Kyoto, Japan\u003cbr\u003e• Condition: Good vintage condition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e🔸 CULTURAL INSIGHT\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003eThe chashaku is the most intimate utensil in the tea room. Unlike the bowl or the kettle, it is held closest to the host's body — an extension of intention itself. Each scoop is singular: carved from a single node of bamboo, shaped once, named once. The act of naming a chashaku — the kakitsuke — is reserved for Zen monks and tea masters of standing. Here, Hasegawa Kanshū of Daitoku-ji has chosen \"Sennen Midori,\" evoking the eternal green of pine needles that endure through every season. It is a name that speaks to continuity rather than ornament.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDaitoku-ji in the Murasakino district of Kyoto is the spiritual center of chanoyu. Sen no Rikyū trained there. For centuries, the temple's abbots have inscribed tea utensils, conferring not value but presence — a recognition that the object participates in something older than itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e🔸 DEEP-DIVE: THE CHASHAKU AS AUTHORSHIP\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003eBamboo tea scoops occupy a singular position in chanoyu. They are the only utensil a tea master is expected to carve personally — making each chashaku a direct record of the maker's hand. The curve of the trough, the angle of the tip, the placement of the node: none of these are arbitrary. They encode a philosophy of movement, a relationship with the tea powder, a conversation with the bowl that will receive it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTankan's carving here is restrained and confident. The bamboo has been allowed to speak — its natural grain and coloring left unadorned. The tsutsu preserves Kanshū's brushwork, grounding this scoop in the Zen calligraphic tradition that has accompanied tea practice for five hundred years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e🔸 日本語の説明\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e野々村淡完作の茶杓「千年緑」。紫野大徳寺・長谷川寛州老師の書付を伴う一品です。淡い竹の色合いと穏やかな曲線が、茶席における静かな存在感を宿しています。竹筒には寛州老師の墨跡が残り、禅と茶の結びつきを今に伝えます。「千年緑」の銘は、松の常緑に託した悠久の祈り——季節を超えて変わらぬものへの敬意が込められています。\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":61623596319090,"sku":"260227_a_2103","price":790.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/5680\/3698\/files\/m96115630800_1.jpg?v=1772158066","url":"https:\/\/checkout.themodernzenarchive.com\/products\/nonomura-tankan-bamboo-chashaku-tea-scoop-daitoku-ji-inscription-sennen-midori","provider":"The Modern Zen Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}