{"product_id":"rikyu-shichishu-kenkyo-raku-chawan-by-heian-shoetsu-yohen-glaze-full-tomobako-set","title":"Rikyu Shichishu Kenkyo Raku Chawan by Heian Shoetsu — Yohen Glaze, Full Tomobako Set","description":"Raku chawan from the Rikyu Shichishu series by Heian Shoetsu — one of seven bowls recreating the tea bowls most beloved by Sen no Rikyu himself. Rich yohen glaze in red, pink, and blue-gray. Full tomobako set with shifuku and booklet. Rikyu chawan Japanese tea bowl wabi-sabi raku fired ceramic matcha bowl hand-formed tea ceremony. Comes complete with original box, cloth, and leaflet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]\u003cbr\u003e• Maker: 平安 祥悦造 (Heian Shoetsu)\u003cbr\u003e• Series: 利休七種之内「検校」(Rikyu Shichishu — Kenkyo)\u003cbr\u003e• Dimensions: H approx. 8.6 cm × D approx. 11.6 cm\u003cbr\u003e• Condition: Very good vintage; minor age-appropriate wear consistent with a bowl that has known use\u003cbr\u003e• Provenance: Tomobako (original wooden box) with maker's seal, shifuku (silk storage cloth), and accompanying booklet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ CULTURAL INSIGHT ]\u003cbr\u003eSen no Rikyu — the sixteenth-century master who refined wabi-cha — kept seven bowls near him throughout his life. He did not collect them for display. He used them. Each bore its own name; Kenkyo, meaning roughly \"the inspector\" or \"the blind examiner,\" suggests a bowl whose depth is felt rather than seen. The Rikyu Shichishu series does not attempt to copy those originals. It attempts to remember them — to hold, in fired clay, the quality of attention that Rikyu brought to each. Heian Shoetsu worked within that inheritance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ DEEP-DIVE ]\u003cbr\u003eThe yohen surface of this Kenkyo bowl carries a conversation between colors that no single firing decision could have scripted. Red bleeds into coral, coral recedes into blue-gray, and at the lip a faint orange warmth rises. Raku firing — hand-formed, low-temperature, withdrawn from the kiln while still glowing — produces exactly this kind of unscripted surface. The maker shapes the vessel; the flame authors its face. What you hold is the result of both: craft and contingency in permanent agreement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe presence of the full tomobako set — box bearing the maker's seal, silk shifuku, and a booklet contextualizing the Rikyu Shichishu — means this bowl arrives with its story intact. Provenance, in the world of Japanese tea ceramics, is not a bonus. It is part of what the object is.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ 日本語解説 ]\u003cbr\u003e平安祥悦造・利休七種之内「検校」楽茶碗。千利休が手元に置き、実際に用いたとされる七種の茶碗を範とした復元シリーズの一作です。赤・ピンク・灰青の窯変が重なり合い、楽焼ならではの炎の刻印が器面全体に満ちています。共箱・共布・栞付のフルセット。茶道具として、また蒐集品として、文化的背景と来歴を備えた一碗です。\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":61626885210482,"sku":"260228_a_2182","price":667.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/5680\/3698\/files\/m71946902145_1.jpg?v=1772291227","url":"https:\/\/checkout.themodernzenarchive.com\/products\/rikyu-shichishu-kenkyo-raku-chawan-by-heian-shoetsu-yohen-glaze-full-tomobako-set","provider":"The Modern Zen Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}