{"product_id":"shino-meoto-yunomi-tea-cup-set-by-craft-moriyama-beni-shino-iron-glaze-wheel-thrown-tomobako","title":"Shino Meoto Yunomi Tea Cup Set by Craft Moriyama — Beni-Shino Iron Glaze, Wheel-Thrown, Tomobako","description":"Experience Authentic Japanese Ceramics with this Shino Yunomi Tea Cup Set. This Meoto Yunomi Pair serves as a Handmade Wedding Gift and Anniversary Gift, featuring Beni-Shino Iron Glaze and Wheel-Thrown Pottery—a considered piece for any Japanese Tea Ceramics collector.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]\u003cbr\u003e• Artist \/ Workshop: Craft Moriyama (クラフト守山), Shiga Prefecture, Japan\u003cbr\u003e• Technique: Beni-Shino (紅志野) — iron-rich glaze with flowing red-orange iron pigmentation over white feldspar ground\u003cbr\u003e• Era: 2000 – 2019 (contemporary studio production)\u003cbr\u003e• Origin: Shiga, Japan (Lake Biwa region)\u003cbr\u003e• Dimensions: Approx. diameter 8 cm \/ height 8.3 cm (per cup); set of 2 — one slightly larger (husband), one slightly smaller (wife)\u003cbr\u003e• Box: Original tomobako (共箱) with inscribed title 月華 (Getsuka — \"Moonlit Bloom\"); shop label intact\u003cbr\u003e• Condition: Very good; no chips or cracks; glaze variation as intended by the craft process\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ CULTURAL \u0026amp; ARTISTIC INSIGHT ]\u003cbr\u003eShino ware (志野焼) emerged in Mino, Gifu Prefecture, during the Momoyama period — the first Japanese ceramic tradition to achieve a purely white glaze. Beni-Shino (紅志野) is its most expressive variant: iron oxide saturates the clay body, and the reduction firing pulls rich copper-red and rust tones through a thick feldspar surface. The result is not decoration applied from without — it is fire made visible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCraft Moriyama interprets this tradition from Shiga, the inland prefecture surrounding Lake Biwa, Japan's largest freshwater lake. That geography carries its own cultural weight: Shiga was a crossroads of ancient trade, a land shaped by water, seasonal mist, and the tempo of nature rather than commerce. The studio's creative Shino work carries that unhurried density — wheel-thrown forms with visible rotational marks (rokme \/ ロクロ目), a tactile record of the hand at work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe name 月華 — \"moonlit bloom\" or \"flower of the moon\" — resonates with the Japanese poetic tradition of tsukimi (月見, moon-viewing). There is a quality in beni-Shino's iron passages that mirrors moonlight on water: it shifts with the angle of observation. No two firings, no two cups, hold the same interior light.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*Two cups. One scale slightly different from the other. The difference is the point — two presences, one ceremony.*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ DEEP-DIVE COMMENTARY ]\u003cbr\u003eShino glazes are produced by applying thick layers of feldspar-based slip (長石釉) to a coarse, iron-bearing clay body. The opacity and surface crazing are not flaws — they are structural to the aesthetic. In Beni-Shino, a higher concentration of iron in the clay body interacts with oxygen fluctuation in the kiln, producing characteristic passages of ochre, rust, and occasionally deep red.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe meoto yunomi (夫婦湯呑) form — a matched pair of tea cups in slightly differing sizes — is among the most culturally freighted forms in Japanese folk ceramic tradition. It embodies the concept of en (縁, karmic connection) made physical: two vessels, shaped by the same hands, sized to acknowledge difference without erasing it. As a wedding gift, anniversary gift, or simply a shared morning ritual, the pair carries a social poetry that solitary objects cannot.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCraft Moriyama's production occupies a thoughtful position between folk craft (mingei) sensibility and contemporary studio practice. The rokme — the spiral of wheel marks left visible on the cup body — is a deliberate choice: it preserves the trace of making, a form of authorship that purely utilitarian production smooths away. In use, the fingers follow those marks without thinking. The object teaches the hand.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe tomobako (共箱) bears the title 月華 in brushed inscription — a practice rooted in the formal presentation culture of Japanese tea ceremony (chanoyu). Boxes of this kind are not merely packaging; they authenticate, situate, and name the object within a lineage of intent. That the box and label survive together is a mark of provenance worth holding.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e---\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ JAPANESE DESCRIPTION \/ 日本語解説 ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e■ 作品詳細\u003cbr\u003e• 工房：クラフト守山（滋賀県）\u003cbr\u003e• 技法：紅志野 — 鉄分の多い粘土に長石釉をかけ、窯変によって赤橙色と白濁の景色を生み出す\u003cbr\u003e• 年代：2000年代〜2010年代\u003cbr\u003e• 産地：滋賀県（琵琶湖地方）\u003cbr\u003e• サイズ：直径約8cm・高さ約8.3cm（1個）× 2客。夫側がやや大きく、妻側がやや小さい\u003cbr\u003e• 箱：共箱付き、箱書「月華」、ラベル残存\u003cbr\u003e• 状態：良品。欠け・ひびなし。釉薬景色は意図的なもの\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e■ 文化・美的解説\u003cbr\u003e志野焼は桃山時代の美濃（岐阜）に生まれた、日本初の白釉陶器の伝統です。紅志野はその中でも最も表情豊かな様式で、鉄分を多く含む素地が還元焔焼成によって赤・錆・橙の景色を白濁した表面から滲み出させます。それは外から施された装飾ではなく、火そのものが姿を変えたものです。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eクラフト守山は、琵琶湖を擁する滋賀から、この伝統を現代の目線で解釈しています。ロクロ目を意図的に残した轆轤成形の形は、「作る行為の痕跡」を物語として刻み込んでいます。銘「月華」は月見の詩的伝統に根ざし、紅志野の鉄分景色が見る角度によって月光のように表情を変えることと呼応します。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e■ コレクター向け解説\u003cbr\u003e夫婦湯呑は、わずかにサイズの異なる一対の茶碗であり、日本の民芸的伝統の中で最も文化的な重みを持つ器形のひとつです。「縁」という概念を形にしたもの——同じ手で成形された二つの器が、違いを認めながらも対をなす。結婚の贈り物として、記念日の贈り物として、あるいは朝の共有した時間のために。共箱に毛筆で記された「月華」の箱書は、茶の湯の正式な器の伝統に根ざした「命名」であり、作品の意図と来歴を伝える証言です。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e---\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":61800227438962,"sku":"260424_a_2766","price":500.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/5680\/3698\/files\/m96799425349_1.jpg?v=1776992648","url":"https:\/\/checkout.themodernzenarchive.com\/products\/shino-meoto-yunomi-tea-cup-set-by-craft-moriyama-beni-shino-iron-glaze-wheel-thrown-tomobako","provider":"The Modern Zen Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}