{"product_id":"tantansai-gonomi-tamukeyama-maki-e-lacquer-kogo-incense-container","title":"Tantansai-Gonomi Tamukeyama Maki-e Lacquer Kogō Incense Container","description":"A signed lacquer kogō (incense container) in the Tantansai-gonomi tradition, named Tamukeyama after the celebrated autumn maple grove in Nara. Crafted by Dōjō Munehiro, this piece features vivid red and orange maple leaf maki-e on a deeply lustrous black lacquer ground — a classic autumn seasonal reference prized in chanoyu. The lid lifts to reveal a clean interior, and the signed wooden storage box confirms the piece's attributed lineage to the style favored by Tantansai, the 14th Grand Master of Urasenke.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn ideal choice for collectors seeking authenticated urasenke lacquer, signed maki-e tea ceremony utensils, or seasonal autumn kogō for chaji and chakai practice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]\u003cbr\u003e• Dimensions: Diameter 7.5 cm, Height 2.2 cm\u003cbr\u003e• Condition: No cracks or chips; box lid has minor surface soiling consistent with age\u003cbr\u003e• Signed wooden storage box included\u003cbr\u003e• SKU: 260402_a_2618\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e[ Cultural \u0026amp; Artistic Insight ]\u003cbr\u003eTamukeyama — literally \"the mountain of offering\" — is a site within Kasuga Grand Shrine in Nara, renowned since the Heian period for its autumn maples. The naming of a kogō after a famous meisho (place of cultural renown) is a characteristic device in tea ceremony aesthetics: the object becomes a vessel not only for incense, but for poetic association. To place this kogō in a tokonoma is to invoke the scent of late autumn, the rustle of crimson leaves, the quiet devotion of an offering made without audience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e[ Deep-Dive Commentary ]\u003cbr\u003e\"Gonomi\" — meaning \"preferred by\" or \"in the taste of\" — is one of the highest forms of attribution in the world of chanoyu utensils. Tantansai (1893–1964), the 14th Grand Master of the Urasenke school of tea, was known for a refined aesthetic that married classical Kyoto lacquer traditions with restrained, seasonal sensibility. A piece bearing \"Tantansai-gonomi\" designation carries with it the authority of that lineage: it represents not a personal commission but a school-recognized standard of form, proportion, and artistic intention. For the practitioner, using such a piece is a form of dialogue across generations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDōjō Munehiro (also known by the art name Sōkō) was a Kyoto lacquer artisan working in the tradition of formal tea ceremony wares. His pieces appear in signed box sets consistent with gifting and formal presentation contexts within the chado world.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ JAPANESE DESCRIPTION \/ 日本語解説 ]\u003cbr\u003e道場宗廣（宗光）作、淡々斎好「手向山」蒔絵香合。黒漆地に赤・橙の楓葉蒔絵を施した、秋の取り合わせに最適な香合です。淡々斎（裏千家十四世家元）の好み物として、格調ある茶席での使用に適しています。箱書き付き。直径7.5cm、高さ2.2cm。割れ・欠けなし。箱蓋に若干の汚れあり。\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":61732520984946,"sku":"260402_a_2618","price":798.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/5680\/3698\/files\/m89454613434_1.jpg?v=1775138015","url":"https:\/\/checkout.themodernzenarchive.com\/products\/tantansai-gonomi-tamukeyama-maki-e-lacquer-kogo-incense-container","provider":"The Modern Zen Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}