{"product_id":"tea-scoop-by-fukumoto-sekio-daitokuji-washin","title":"Tea Scoop by Fukumoto Sekio, Daitokuji — Washin","description":"✦ TEA SCOOP (CHASHAKU) — FUKUMOTO SEKIO × SOATSU\u003cbr\u003e\"Washin\" — Harmonious Heart\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]\u003cbr\u003e• Item: Chashaku (tea scoop) with tomobako (original box)\u003cbr\u003e• Artist: Fukumoto Sekio (Daitokuji-ha Shoshunji, Kyoto)\u003cbr\u003e• Carver (shimo-kezuri): Soatsu\u003cbr\u003e• Inscription (mei): 和心 (Washin — Harmonious Heart)\u003cbr\u003e• Material: Bamboo\u003cbr\u003e• Dimensions: Scoop approx. 18.2 cm \/ Tube approx. 21.7 cm, dia. approx. 2.7 cm\u003cbr\u003e• Period: 2010s\u003cbr\u003e• Condition: Very good. No cracks or damage noted.\u003cbr\u003e• Includes: Original wooden box (tomobako) with inscription\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ CULTURAL INSIGHT ]\u003cbr\u003eThe chashaku is among the most intimate objects in the tea room. Unlike the bowl or the kettle, it touches the tea directly — a gesture repeated in every gathering, every season, every year. Its mei, or poetic inscription, is not decoration. It is intention made visible.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Washin\" — harmonious heart — locates the scoop within the ethics of chado. Not skill. Not beauty. Heart, oriented toward harmony.\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ DEEP-DIVE ]\u003cbr\u003eFukumoto Sekio is the abbot of Shoshunji, a temple affiliated with the Daitokuji school of Rinzai Zen in Kyoto — the same complex that shaped Murata Juko, Sen no Rikyu, and centuries of chado's spiritual spine. Priest-calligraphers of this lineage do not sign lightly. The characters on this box carry the full weight of institutional and personal practice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe division of labor here is notable: Fukumoto Sekio inscribes; Soatsu carves the lower shaft (shimo-kezuri). This collaboration between calligraphic authority and craft hand is a recognized form within formal tea culture. The scoop itself — white bamboo, clean in form, bright in tone — holds the restraint that makes the inscription do its full work.\u003cbr\u003e━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━\u003cbr\u003e🔹 [ 日本語解説 ]\u003cbr\u003e大徳寺派招春寺の住職、福本積應師による銘「和心」の茶杓です。下削りは宗篤。白竹の清潔な形に、共箱の力強い墨書が添えられています。禅の精神を茶道具に宿した一点。\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":61626883572082,"sku":"260228_a_2176","price":730.0,"currency_code":"AED","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/5680\/3698\/files\/m11393648282_1.jpg?v=1772290534","url":"https:\/\/checkout.themodernzenarchive.com\/products\/tea-scoop-by-fukumoto-sekio-daitokuji-washin","provider":"The Modern Zen Archive","version":"1.0","type":"link"}