{"product_id":"suda-shoho-ninsei-style-senmen-fan-panel-tea-bowl-kyo-yaki-chawan","title":"Suda Shoho Ninsei-Style Senmen Fan Panel Tea Bowl — Kyo-yaki Chawan","description":"A Kyo-yaki tea bowl by Suda Shoho (須田祥豊) in the Ninsei tradition, featuring scattered fan panels (扇面) across a warm cream body — each senmen containing a different miniature world of waves, bridges, cherry blossoms, cranes, and geometric patterns in iron-red, cobalt blue, emerald green, and gold leaf. This Ninsei-Utsushi Chawan represents the density of Kyoto Overglaze Enamel painting at its most intricate — a Japanese Tea Ceremony piece for collectors drawn to Polychrome Pottery, Senmen Fan Motif ceramics, and the continuity of Kyo-yaki Artistry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Artist: Suda Shoho (須田祥豊) — Kyoto potter specializing in Ninsei-style overglaze enamel work\u003cbr\u003e• Technique: Ninsei-utsushi (仁清写) — overglaze polychrome enamel (色絵) with gold leaf (金彩)\u003cbr\u003e• Era: 2010–2019\u003cbr\u003e• Origin: Kyoto, Japan\u003cbr\u003e• Dimensions: H 7.1 cm × D 12.1 cm (2.8\" × 4.8\")\u003cbr\u003e• Box: Signed wooden box (共箱) inscribed '仁清写扇面 茶盌' with '祥豊造' signature\u003cbr\u003e• Condition: Good — some color from use, no notable stains or damage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ CULTURAL \u0026amp; ARTISTIC INSIGHT ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe senmen — the open fan — is not decoration. It is a compositional device that has organized Japanese visual imagination for centuries. Each fan becomes a frame within which an entire landscape, season, or mood can be contained. When multiple fans are scattered across a single surface, they do not compete. They converse — each panel offering a different window onto a different moment, held together by the shared discipline of the form.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSuda Shoho paints in the Ninsei tradition, which means painting not as embellishment but as architecture. Every fan on this bowl carries its own world: waves crashing against rocks in one, a bridge spanning a stream in another, cherry blossoms attended by cranes in a third, geometric checkerboard patterns asserting pure form in a fourth. The palette — iron-red, cobalt blue, emerald green, gold leaf, grey — is the full vocabulary of Kyo-yaki overglaze enamel, deployed with a finesse that rewards sustained looking.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is a bowl that does not reveal itself at a glance. It asks to be turned, examined, returned to. Each rotation presents new fans, new scenes, new conversations between color and line. The cream body beneath serves as silence between statements — the space that gives each painted world room to breathe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*\"A single bowl, but many windows. Each fan opens onto a world that was always there — waiting to be noticed.\"*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ DEEP-DIVE COMMENTARY ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Senmen (扇面) as Compositional Device**: The scattered fan motif — senmen chirashi (扇面散らし) — has roots in Heian-period screen painting and Rinpa decorative arts. Each fan acts as an autonomous pictorial space, allowing the artist to juxtapose unrelated subjects within a unified design. The technique demands both macro-vision (the overall rhythm of fan placement) and micro-precision (the miniature world within each panel). Suda Shoho navigates both scales with evident authority.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Ninsei-Utsushi (仁清写) — Working in the Ninsei Tradition**: Nonomura Ninsei, the 17th-century Kyoto potter, established the template for overglaze enamel tea wares that continues to define Kyo-yaki practice. 'Utsushi' (写) means to copy or transmit — but in Japanese ceramic culture, it implies not mere reproduction but re-interpretation through one's own hand. Each generation of Ninsei-tradition potters inherits the vocabulary while speaking in their own voice. Suda Shoho's contribution lies in the extraordinary density of detail within each fan panel — miniature landscapes executed at a scale that approaches manuscript illumination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**The Palette as Grammar**: Iron-red, cobalt blue, emerald green, gold leaf — these four colors plus grey constitute the canonical Kyo-yaki overglaze palette inherited from Chinese wucai and refined through four centuries of Kyoto practice. Each pigment is applied in a separate firing pass, building the design layer by layer. Gold is applied last — the final punctuation. The discipline required to maintain color harmony across dozens of small painted scenes on a curved surface is formidable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Interior and Exterior as Continuous Space**: The fans continue across both the exterior and interior surfaces of this bowl, creating a continuous field of imagery that unfolds as the bowl is turned and tilted. During tea preparation, the host presents the bowl's 'face' (正面) to the guest — but the reverse carries its own narrative of bridges, willows, and wave patterns. The bowl rewards the full 360-degree examination that tea etiquette encourages.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ 日本語解説 ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e【基本情報】\u003cbr\u003e• 作家：須田祥豊\u003cbr\u003e• 技法：仁清写・色絵金彩（上絵付）\u003cbr\u003e• 意匠：扇面散らし（波、橋、桜に鶴、市松文、放射文など）\u003cbr\u003e• 時代：2010年代\u003cbr\u003e• 産地：京都\u003cbr\u003e• 寸法：高さ 7.1cm × 口径 12.1cm\u003cbr\u003e• 箱：共箱（「仁清写扇面 茶盌」箱書き、「祥豊造」署名）\u003cbr\u003e• 状態：良好 — 使用による多少の色味あり、目立つ汚れや傷なし\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e【解説】\u003cbr\u003e京焼の須田祥豊による仁清写扇面茶碗です。クリーム色の素地の上に、大小の扇面が散らされ、それぞれの中に波濤、橋、桜に鶴、市松文様、放射文様など異なる景色が精緻に描き込まれています。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e扇面散らし（せんめんちらし）は、平安時代の屏風絵や琳派の装飾美術に源流を持つ構成法で、一つ一つの扇が独立した絵画空間として機能しながら、全体としては統一された装飾世界を形成します。鉄赤、呉須（コバルト）、緑、金彩、灰色という京焼の伝統的な色絵パレットが駆使され、回すたびに新たな景色が現れる碗です。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e仁清写（にんせいうつし）とは、野々村仁清の技法と意匠を受け継ぎつつ、自らの手で再解釈すること。須田祥豊の扇面は極めて細密で、一つ一つの扇の中に完結した小宇宙が宿っています。共箱付き。\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*Each fan opens. Each world was already complete. The bowl simply gathers them — and waits for the hand that will turn it slowly enough to see.*","brand":"The Modern Zen Archive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61600764297586,"sku":"260130_1930","price":478.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/5680\/3698\/files\/m60326359628_1.jpg?v=1771307213","url":"https:\/\/checkout.themodernzenarchive.com\/products\/suda-shoho-ninsei-style-senmen-fan-panel-tea-bowl-kyo-yaki-chawan","provider":"The Modern Zen Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}