{"product_id":"takatsuru-jun-celadon-hira-chawan-kannon-do-yaki-junchiku-kiln","title":"Takatsuru Jun Celadon Hira-Chawan — Kannon-do-yaki Junchiku Kiln","description":"Experience authentic Japanese ceramics with this Takatsuru Jun Celadon Hira-Chawan. This flat tea bowl serves as a striking example of contemporary celadon craft and contemplative vessel, featuring delicate kannyu crazing and iron-spot accents—a must-have for any collector seeking Japanese tea ceremony aesthetics and living ceramic art.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e• Artist: Takatsuru Jun (高鶴淳)\u003cbr\u003e• Technique: Celadon glaze with kannyu crazing and iron-spot inclusions\u003cbr\u003e• Era: 2010 – 2019\u003cbr\u003e• Origin: Kannon-do-yaki (観音堂焼), Junchiku Kiln (淳竹窯)\u003cbr\u003e• Dimensions: 16.5 cm × 5.7 cm (6.5\" × 2.2\")\u003cbr\u003e• Box: Signed tomobako with cloth tie and artist seal\u003cbr\u003e• Condition: Excellent\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ CULTURAL \u0026amp; ARTISTIC INSIGHT ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is a moment in any artist’s practice where mastery reveals itself not through repetition, but through departure. Takatsuru Jun is known for his deeply earthen ash glazes—vessels that carry the gravity of wood-fired kilns and the dense silence of volcanic terrain. This hira-chawan is the opposite gesture entirely. A pale mint-green celadon envelope covers the broad, open form, its surface alive with a fine web of kannyu crazing that catches light like frost on still water. Scattered ochre spots—iron deposits surfacing through the glaze—punctuate the field like distant birds against a winter sky.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe effect is unmistakably reminiscent of Korean Goryeo celadon, yet filtered through a distinctly Japanese sensibility. Where Goryeo ware pursued flawless jade-like surfaces, Takatsuru allows the kiln to speak: the crazing is not flaw but voice, each hairline fracture a record of cooling, of the ceramic body and its glass skin contracting at different rates. This is glaze as autobiography.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe hira-chawan form—wide, shallow, almost plate-like—is traditionally reserved for summer use in tea ceremony, its open mouth allowing tea to cool. In Takatsuru’s hands, the form becomes a canvas. The celadon pools and thins across the broad interior, creating subtle tonal shifts that change with the angle of observation. It is a bowl that asks to be held at eye level, turned slowly, read like a landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*\"The same hand that shapes darkness can also hold light. Range is not contradiction—it is completeness.\"*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ DEEP-DIVE COMMENTARY ]\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Celadon as Dialogue**: Takatsuru’s celadon is not imitation of continental tradition but conversation with it. The pale green references the deep history of Asian ceramic glazing while the iron spots and deliberate crazing declare an aesthetic rooted in wabi—the beauty of impermanence and natural process.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Kannyu (貫入) — The Living Surface**: The network of fine cracks across this bowl will continue to develop over years of use. Tea stains will gradually darken the crazing lines, creating a patina unique to each owner. This is ceramics as partnership: the maker begins the work, but time and use complete it.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**Artistic Range as Authorship**: Collectors familiar with Takatsuru’s ash-glazed work will find this piece revelatory. The discipline required to master both the dark, mineral vocabulary of wood-ash and the precise chemistry of celadon speaks to an artist whose curiosity exceeds any single aesthetic territory. The presence of a full tomobako with cloth tie signals the artist’s own recognition of this piece’s significance.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e**The Hira-Chawan Form**: The generous 16.5 cm diameter and gentle 5.7 cm rise create a vessel of unusual openness. In practice, this width transforms the act of drinking into something closer to contemplation—the tea spreads thin, its color visible against the celadon ground, and every movement of the wrist sends light rippling across the crazed surface.\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：高鶴淳（たかつる じゅん）\u003cbr\u003e• 窯元：観音堂焼 淳竹窯\u003cbr\u003e• 技法：青磁釉・貫入・鉄斑\u003cbr\u003e• 時代：2010年代\u003cbr\u003e• 寸法：径16.5cm × 高5.7cm\u003cbr\u003e• 付属：共箱（布紐付・署名排印）\u003cbr\u003e• 状態：良好\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e【解説】\u003cbr\u003e高鶴淳といえば、重厚な灰被りの茶碗を思い浮かべる方が多いでしょう。しかしこの平茶碗は、同じ作家の全く異なる表情を見せてくれます。淡い青磁釉が器全体を覆い、細やかな貫入が光を受けて静かに輝く。そこに散る鉄斑が、穏やかな景色にさりげない変化を与えています。\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e高麗青磁を彷彿とさせる色調でありながら、貫入の走り方や鉄分の表出には日本的な「景色」への眺めが感じられます。平茶碗の開放的な形は夏茶碗としての機能美を持ちつつ、この青磁の色を最大限に活かす舞台となっています。共箱の丁寧な仕立てからも、作家自身がこの作品に込めた想いの深さが伝わります。\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*Where darkness and light emerge from the same hand, continuity lives.*","brand":"The Modern Zen Archive","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":61593221169522,"sku":"260113_a_1532","price":828.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/5680\/3698\/files\/m93092636786_1.jpg?v=1771031371","url":"https:\/\/checkout.themodernzenarchive.com\/products\/takatsuru-jun-celadon-hira-chawan-kannon-do-yaki-junchiku-kiln","provider":"The Modern Zen Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}