Shino Ware Matcha Bowl by Yano Keisen — Iron Spot Landscape on White Glaze, Small Form

A small-form Shino chawan by Yano Keisen, carrying the essential qualities of the tradition: white glaze that breathes, iron markings that land with intention, and a rim that refuses perfect symmetry. One face holds a triangular iron cluster — almost a mountain seen from above. The interior pools into soft irregularity. An object that asks nothing of you but presence.

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▪ ITEM DETAILS
• Object: Chawan (matcha bowl)
• Style: Shino-yaki (志野焼)
• Potter: 矢野景川 (Yano Keisen)
• Diameter: approx. 10.5 cm / Height: approx. 6.7 cm
• Glaze: White Shino glaze with scattered iron-oxide markings
• Form: Small-form (ko-buri); irregular rim; modest foot ring
• Condition: No chips or cracks

▪ CULTURAL CONTEXT
Shino ware emerged in sixteenth-century Mino province as the first Japanese ceramic tradition to reject the ideal of technical perfection in favor of deliberate imperfection — thick, porous white glaze, iron marks that place as naturally as weather, forms that acknowledge the hand that made them. In the tea ceremony, Shino bowls were among the first to be called 'wabi' by their users. Yano Keisen works within this lineage with restraint: the iron markings on this bowl are neither decorative nor accidental — they are recorded events, the way a stone records its history in its surface.

▪ COLLECTOR'S NOTE
The small diameter (10.5 cm) places this bowl in the ko-chawan tradition — slightly more intimate in the hand than a standard chawan, appropriate for smaller or more informal tea gatherings. The interior surface reveals subtle glaze pooling at the base, with scattered dark specks that give depth to the white ground. The irregular mouth — slightly compressed on one side — is a formal quality in Shino tradition, not a defect. The triangular iron cluster on one face dominates quietly, the way significant things do.

▪ 日本語説明
矢野景川造の志野焼小ぶり抹茶碗。白い志野釉の面に鉄斑が自然に散り、正面の三角形に集まる鉄絵具は山を思わせる。不整形の口縁は手びねりの証であり、志野焼の美意識の核心にある「不完全さの意図」を体現する。口径10.5cmの小ぶりな形は掌にしっくりと収まり、日常の一服にも茶事にも対応できる汎用性を持つ。志野焼は16世紀の美濃で生まれた最初の「侘び」陶器であり、この碗はその精神を静かに継承している。

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