A raku-yaki chawan by Ito Keiraku, carrying the quiet arrival of autumn across its surface.
Delicate branches of hagi — bush clover — arc across the cream-white raku body. Green leaves reach outward with unhurried grace while small pink blossoms gather at the stems. The painting is restrained: enough to evoke the season, never so much as to crowd the silence around it.
Hagi (Lespedeza) holds deep resonance in Japanese culture as one of the Seven Grasses of Autumn, appearing in poetry since the Man'yoshu. In chanoyu, a hagi-painted chawan signals the host's awareness of the turning season — an invitation to notice what is quietly changing.
Keiraku's raku body provides a soft, warm canvas. The hand-shaped form carries the gentle asymmetry that raku demands — each bowl a single, unrepeatable event drawn from the kiln.
Accompanied by tomobako (artist-signed wooden box).
Dimensions: • Diameter: approx. 10.7 cm (4.2 in) • Height: approx. 7 cm (2.8 in)
Condition: No chips, no cracks. The painted surface is well preserved.
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