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Shigaraki Chawan by Shozaemon - Japanese Matcha Bowl with Green Ash Glaze and Hiiro Fire Color, Signed Box
Shigaraki Chawan by Shozaemon - Japanese Matcha Bowl with Green Ash Glaze and Hiiro Fire Color, Signed Box
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Experience the elemental beauty of authentic Japanese folk ceramics with this Shigaraki Tea Bowl by Shozaemon. This handthrown Matcha Bowl serves as a Wabi Sabi Chawan and Shigaraki Ware masterpiece, featuring natural ash glaze artistry and vivid hiiro fire color—a must-have for any Tea Ceremony practitioner or collector seeking authentic Zen Ceramic expression.
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🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]
• Artist: Shozaemon (庄左ヱ門)
• Technique: Shigaraki-yaki with natural green ash glaze (ryokuyu) and hiiro fire-color
• Era: Contemporary (Heisei-Reiwa period)
• Origin: Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
• Dimensions: Diameter approx. 10.5 cm × Height approx. 8.2 cm (4.1" × 3.2")
• Box: Tomobako (artist-signed wooden box)
• Condition: Good – no cracks or chips
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🔹 [ CULTURAL & ARTISTIC INSIGHT ]
Shigaraki is one of Japan's Six Ancient Kilns (Rokkoyo), a designation that places it among the most historically significant ceramic traditions on the archipelago. Fired in the hills of Shiga Prefecture since at least the Kamakura period, Shigaraki ware is known for its coarse, gritty clay—rich in feldspar and quartz—which gives each piece a tactile roughness that speaks of deep time and geological memory. When Shozaemon shapes a bowl from this clay and fires it in a wood-fueled anagama, something ancient and unrepeatable happens.
What the images reveal here is a dialogue between glaze and fire. The exterior shows a flowing green ash glaze (ryokuyu) descending in bands over the horizontal throwing rings, pooling slightly above the foot. On the reverse, the ash glaze gives way to raw terracotta hiiro—the blush-orange fire color that forms where the kiln's flame has kissed unglazed clay. This interplay of green and orange is neither designed nor controlled; it is received. The potter shapes the vessel; the kiln completes it.
In tea culture, Shigaraki bowls have long been prized for this unselfconscious quality. Sen no Rikyu himself elevated such wabi ceramics—objects that carry the kiln's narrative rather than the potter's ego—to the center of chado practice. Holding this bowl, one holds a small piece of that centuries-old conversation.
*"Where the flame passed through, it left its color—unhurried, unbidden, already enough."*
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🔹 [ DEEP-DIVE COMMENTARY ]
**Shigaraki's Clay Language**: The Shigaraki region's clay contains unusually high concentrations of coarse feldspar particles that partially vitrify during high-temperature firing, creating the characteristic rough skin that catches light at every angle. This gritty texture is not a flaw to be corrected but the very signature of the tradition—a deliberate acknowledgment that earth retains its nature even after transformation.
**Ash Glaze Formation**: The green tones visible on the exterior are created by natural wood ash carried by kiln drafts settling onto the clay surface, melting into a glaze through prolonged high-temperature exposure. Each drip and pool is the record of atmospheric conditions inside the kiln at a specific moment—temperature, airflow, flame direction—conditions that can never be precisely replicated, making every Shigaraki bowl a singular event.
**Hiiro and the Beauty of Exposure**: The warm reddish-orange hiiro on the unglazed portions of this bowl is caused by iron oxidation in the clay during the cooling phase of firing. Japanese tea aesthetics regard this naturally occurring fire color as one of the most prized surface qualities in Shigaraki ware—a spontaneous coloration that no applied glaze could authentically imitate.
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🔹 [ 日本語解説 ]
【基本情報】
• 作家：庄左ヱ門
• 技法：信楽焼、自然緑釉（灰釉）、火色
• 時代：現代（平成〜令和）
• 産地：滋賀県 信楽
• 寸法：直径約10.5cm × 高さ約8.2cm
• 付属：共箱
• 状態：良好（ヒビ・カケなし）
【解説】
信楽は日本六古窯のひとつに数えられ、鎌倉時代から続く窯業地として知られています。その粗粒子の土味と、自然降灰によって生まれる緑釉は、信楽焼の最大の個性です。本作は庄左ヱ門作の手轆轤成形の茶碗で、外壁に流れ落ちる緑釉と、うら側に現れた鮮やかな火色のコントラストが印象的です。
轆轤目の跡が横帯として全体に走り、土と手の対話がそのまま形に刻まれています。緑釉は灰が窯の熱で溶けて自然に生成したもので、狙って作ることのできない偶然の景色です。見込みには釉薬が薄くかかり、土の素地が透けて見える素朴な表情が、抹茶の緑をより深く引き立てます。
茶道における信楽茶碗は、利休の侘び茶の精神を体現するものとして古くから珍重されてきました。飾らず、計算せず、ただ火と土と時間が作り出した景色—それがこの一碗に宿っています。共箱入りで保存状態は良好です。
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🔹 [ SHIPPING & PACKAGING ]
• Dispatch: Within 1-6 business days
• Carrier: Japan Post EMS / UPS (with tracking)
• Packaging: Carefully wrapped with protective materials
*From the hills of Shiga, shaped by hands and completed by fire—arriving to hold a moment of stillness in your own home.*
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🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]
• Artist: Shozaemon (庄左ヱ門)
• Technique: Shigaraki-yaki with natural green ash glaze (ryokuyu) and hiiro fire-color
• Era: Contemporary (Heisei-Reiwa period)
• Origin: Shigaraki, Shiga Prefecture, Japan
• Dimensions: Diameter approx. 10.5 cm × Height approx. 8.2 cm (4.1" × 3.2")
• Box: Tomobako (artist-signed wooden box)
• Condition: Good – no cracks or chips
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🔹 [ CULTURAL & ARTISTIC INSIGHT ]
Shigaraki is one of Japan's Six Ancient Kilns (Rokkoyo), a designation that places it among the most historically significant ceramic traditions on the archipelago. Fired in the hills of Shiga Prefecture since at least the Kamakura period, Shigaraki ware is known for its coarse, gritty clay—rich in feldspar and quartz—which gives each piece a tactile roughness that speaks of deep time and geological memory. When Shozaemon shapes a bowl from this clay and fires it in a wood-fueled anagama, something ancient and unrepeatable happens.
What the images reveal here is a dialogue between glaze and fire. The exterior shows a flowing green ash glaze (ryokuyu) descending in bands over the horizontal throwing rings, pooling slightly above the foot. On the reverse, the ash glaze gives way to raw terracotta hiiro—the blush-orange fire color that forms where the kiln's flame has kissed unglazed clay. This interplay of green and orange is neither designed nor controlled; it is received. The potter shapes the vessel; the kiln completes it.
In tea culture, Shigaraki bowls have long been prized for this unselfconscious quality. Sen no Rikyu himself elevated such wabi ceramics—objects that carry the kiln's narrative rather than the potter's ego—to the center of chado practice. Holding this bowl, one holds a small piece of that centuries-old conversation.
*"Where the flame passed through, it left its color—unhurried, unbidden, already enough."*
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🔹 [ DEEP-DIVE COMMENTARY ]
**Shigaraki's Clay Language**: The Shigaraki region's clay contains unusually high concentrations of coarse feldspar particles that partially vitrify during high-temperature firing, creating the characteristic rough skin that catches light at every angle. This gritty texture is not a flaw to be corrected but the very signature of the tradition—a deliberate acknowledgment that earth retains its nature even after transformation.
**Ash Glaze Formation**: The green tones visible on the exterior are created by natural wood ash carried by kiln drafts settling onto the clay surface, melting into a glaze through prolonged high-temperature exposure. Each drip and pool is the record of atmospheric conditions inside the kiln at a specific moment—temperature, airflow, flame direction—conditions that can never be precisely replicated, making every Shigaraki bowl a singular event.
**Hiiro and the Beauty of Exposure**: The warm reddish-orange hiiro on the unglazed portions of this bowl is caused by iron oxidation in the clay during the cooling phase of firing. Japanese tea aesthetics regard this naturally occurring fire color as one of the most prized surface qualities in Shigaraki ware—a spontaneous coloration that no applied glaze could authentically imitate.
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🔹 [ 日本語解説 ]
【基本情報】
• 作家：庄左ヱ門
• 技法：信楽焼、自然緑釉（灰釉）、火色
• 時代：現代（平成〜令和）
• 産地：滋賀県 信楽
• 寸法：直径約10.5cm × 高さ約8.2cm
• 付属：共箱
• 状態：良好（ヒビ・カケなし）
【解説】
信楽は日本六古窯のひとつに数えられ、鎌倉時代から続く窯業地として知られています。その粗粒子の土味と、自然降灰によって生まれる緑釉は、信楽焼の最大の個性です。本作は庄左ヱ門作の手轆轤成形の茶碗で、外壁に流れ落ちる緑釉と、うら側に現れた鮮やかな火色のコントラストが印象的です。
轆轤目の跡が横帯として全体に走り、土と手の対話がそのまま形に刻まれています。緑釉は灰が窯の熱で溶けて自然に生成したもので、狙って作ることのできない偶然の景色です。見込みには釉薬が薄くかかり、土の素地が透けて見える素朴な表情が、抹茶の緑をより深く引き立てます。
茶道における信楽茶碗は、利休の侘び茶の精神を体現するものとして古くから珍重されてきました。飾らず、計算せず、ただ火と土と時間が作り出した景色—それがこの一碗に宿っています。共箱入りで保存状態は良好です。
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
🔹 [ SHIPPING & PACKAGING ]
• Dispatch: Within 1-6 business days
• Carrier: Japan Post EMS / UPS (with tracking)
• Packaging: Carefully wrapped with protective materials
*From the hills of Shiga, shaped by hands and completed by fire—arriving to hold a moment of stillness in your own home.*
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