Oribe Kensui Waste Water Bowl | Iron-Painted Pine Needle and Ajiro Pattern | Flower Vessel

The kensui holds what the ceremony releases — spent water, the residue of cleaning, the end of each gesture. Oribe made even this object a site of authorship: white crackle body, pine needle and ajiro lattice in iron oxide, the green rim arriving as the glaze always does in Oribe work, where you have learned to expect it. The form is utilitarian. The surface is not.

🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]
• Artist: Unknown
• Technique: Oribe iron painting with copper-green glaze
• Era: Contemporary
• Origin: Mino, Gifu
• Dimensions: Height approx. 7 cm, Diameter approx. 12.7 cm
• Box: None noted
• Condition: Excellent — no chips, cracks, or repairs

Twelve point seven centimeters at the rim, seven centimeters tall. The proportions are correct for a working kensui — wide enough to receive without spilling, shallow enough to carry. The same form serves as a flower vessel. No chips, no cracks, no repairs.

Pine needle is a winter motif. The ajiro lattice is a craft motif — the weave of split bamboo, translated into iron painting on clay. Two traditions compressed into one surface. The kensui accepts both without choosing between them.

🔹 [ SHIPPING & PACKAGING ]
• Dispatch: Within 1-6 business days
• Carrier: Japan Post EMS / UPS (with tracking)
• Packaging: Carefully wrapped with protective materials