Shino-Style Chawan Pink Rough Glaze — Gogo Kiln, Faceted Body, Signed Box

Shino-style chawan with soft pink-white rough-textured glaze and faceted angular body — a tea bowl for collectors drawn to artist-made Shino-style ceramics, crawling glaze tea bowls, and contemporary Japanese studio pottery with signed provenance.

[ DETAILS ]
• Name: 作家物 抹茶碗 五合窯 (Studio Chawan, Gogo Kiln)
• Dimensions: Diameter approx. 12.4 cm × H approx. 7.5 cm
• Glaze: Shino-style, soft pink-white, rough texture with crawling effect
• Form: Faceted body with angular hand-cut surfaces
• Box: Signed artist's box (共箱) — Gogo Kiln (五合窯)
• Condition: As intended; crawling glaze is characteristic of style
• SKU: 260318_a_2520

[ CULTURAL CONTEXT ]
Shino glaze — Japan's first white glaze — emerged in the Momoyama period as an answer to a cultural question: what does Japanese aesthetics look like when it stops imitating China? The answer was rough, warm, deliberately imperfect. The crawling, the orange-pink undertone, the way the surface reads differently in every light: this is wabi not as philosophy but as material fact. A faceted body adds another register — the maker's hand visible not just in the glaze but in the cuts.

[ DEEP DIVE ]
The Gogo Kiln (五合窯) name on the box — read literally as "five-gō kiln" — places this piece in a tradition of named studio kilns that define contemporary Japanese ceramics. The Shino glaze family (Shino, Gray Shino, Red Shino, E-Shino) all share a feldspar-heavy composition that produces the characteristic rough, porous surface. The pink tone visible in this piece results from slight iron interaction at specific firing temperatures — a controlled unpredictability that the maker has learned to coax rather than command.

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【日本語】
作家物 抹茶碗、五合窯。志野風のピンク系粗肌釉に面取りの効いたフォルム。共箱。個性的な景色を持ちながら茶席に静かに収まる一碗。

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