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Yuteki Tenmoku Glaze Chawan — Wooden Box Inscribed Shimizu Yasutaka

Yuteki Tenmoku Glaze Chawan — Wooden Box Inscribed Shimizu Yasutaka

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A yuteki tenmoku chawan, its interior pooling into a near-black glaze broken by dense fields of silver-grey droplets, the exterior carrying the same speckling in a quieter, matte register. The accompanying kiri wood box is brush-inscribed with the technique's name and stamped with a red seal reading Shimizu Yasutaka. Wheel-thrown to a soft conical rise, the foot left bare in cream-toned stoneware.

🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS ]
• Artist: Box inscribed "Shimizu Yasutaka" (清水保孝) — attribution rests on the box inscription; independent authentication of the piece's hand against documented works has not been performed.
• Technique: Yuteki tenmoku (oil-spot tenmoku glaze), an iron-rich black glaze fired to produce crystalline surface spotting
• Era: Seller-described period not stated; likely mid-to-late 20th century, based on glaze surface, foot finish, and form
• Origin: Japan (kiln unspecified)
• Dimensions: Height approx. 6.5 cm, Diameter approx. 12.5 cm
• Box: Kiri wood tomobako, brush-inscribed "油滴釉天目 茶" with red seal
• Condition: No cracks or chips reported by seller; glaze surface intact in photographs

🔹 [ CULTURAL & ARTISTIC INSIGHT ]
Tenmoku bowls take their name from Mount Tianmu in China, where Song-dynasty Chan (Zen) temples held the black-glazed bowls used in monastic tea practice. Japanese monks studying there carried the form and the name home, and by the Kamakura and Muromachi periods tenmoku had settled into Japanese chanoyu as a formal bowl, historically paired with a lacquer tenmokudai stand for guests of higher standing. Among the tenmoku family, yuteki — literally "oil droplet" — refers to the silver-to-rust spotting that emerges when iron in the glaze migrates to the surface during firing and crystallizes on cooling, scattering light across the black ground the way oil beads scatter across water. The density, size, and color of the spots shift with kiln atmosphere and glaze thickness, so no two firings settle the same way. The flowing black glaze, broken into these small constant fields of light, sits close to the wabi-sabi instinct for finding presence in what is irregular and unrepeatable.

🔹 [ DEEP-DIVE COMMENTARY ]
Yuteki tenmoku is one of several black-glaze families — alongside kaki (persimmon), tessha (iron-sand), and the far rarer yohen (kiln-transmuted, iridescent) tenmoku — that share an iron-rich base glaze but diverge sharply in firing behavior. The oil-spot effect depends on a narrow firing window: enough iron saturation in the glaze, and a cooling curve slow enough for iron oxide to rise and crystallize at the surface without the whole surface breaking into rust-brown crawl. Too fast a cool and the spots stay faint; too slow or too hot and they can bloom into an uncontrolled iron bloom that reads as a flaw rather than a pattern.
The most celebrated historical examples come from the Jian kilns of Fujian and the Jizhou kilns further north, both active through the Song dynasty and prized in Japan as imported temple treasures. Japanese potters absorbed the technique through that same temple exchange and have continued refining it in domestic kilns for centuries since, with modern studio potters using electric and gas kilns to pursue more repeatable spotting while still working within a technique that keeps a wide margin for chance.
For collectors, the appeal sits in that tension between control and accident — a glaze recipe and firing schedule aimed at a known effect, landing on a surface that is never quite predictable twice. The tactile contrast matters too: a glossy, pooled interior against a more matte, evenly stippled exterior, both read differently under changing light. Bowls like this one continue a firing tradition that spans centuries without claiming to replicate any specific historical kiln.

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🔹 [ 日本語解説 ]
黒く沈んだ釉膚に、銀灰色の油滴が密に浮かぶ天目茶碗。見込みは黒がほぼ艶やかに溜まり、そこに白銀の斑が集まって滲む。胴には同じ斑紋がより静かな艶消しの調子で広がる。共箱には技法名が墨書され、朱印には「清水保孝」と読める銘が捺されている。轆轤挽きの緩やかな円錐形で、高台は釉を掛けず、素地のクリーム色をそのまま残している。

🔹 [ BASIC DETAILS(詳細) ]
・作家:共箱に「清水保孝」の墨書・押印あり——帰属の根拠は箱書きのみであり、作品自体の手跡についての第三者鑑定は行われていません。
・技法:油滴釉天目(鉄分を多く含む黒釉を焼成時に結晶化させ、表面に斑紋を生じさせる技法)
・年代:出品者による年代表記なし。釉調・高台の仕上げ・器形から、20世紀中頃〜後期と推定されます。
・産地:日本(窯元不明)
・寸法:高さ約6.5cm、直径約12.5cm
・箱:桐の共箱、「油滴釉天目 茶」の墨書、朱印あり
・状態:出品者記載によれば割れ・欠けなし。写真上、釉面に破損は見られません。

🔹 [ CULTURAL & ARTISTIC INSIGHT(文化・芸術的背景) ]
天目という呼称は、中国の天目山に由来する。宋代の禅寺で使われていた黒釉の茶碗を、留学した日本の僧が持ち帰ったことから、この名が日本に根づいた。鎌倉・室町期を通じて、天目茶碗は茶の湯における格の高い茶碗として定着し、歴史的には身分の高い客に天目台とともに供された。天目の中でも油滴は、焼成中に釉中の鉄分が表面へ移動し、冷却時に結晶化することで生まれる銀色から錆色の斑紋を指す名で、黒地に浮かぶその斑は、水面に散る油の粒に見立てられてきた。斑の密度・大きさ・色合いは窯の雰囲気や釉の厚みによって変わるため、同じ窯変は二度と生まれない。絶えず揺らぐ光の粒を宿した黒釉は、不完全さや一回性のうちに趣を見出す侘び寂びの感覚と静かに響き合う。

🔹 [ DEEP-DIVE COMMENTARY(詳細解説) ]
油滴天目は、柿釉・鉄砂釉、さらにごく稀な曜変天目とともに、鉄分を多く含む黒釉を基盤としながら、焼成の挙動によって大きく異なる表情を見せる黒釉系統のひとつである。油滴の発生には狭い焼成条件が要求される——釉中の鉄分が十分でありながら、冷却の速度が、鉄酸化物を表面に結晶化させるのに適した緩やかさを保つ必要がある。冷却が速すぎれば斑は淡く留まり、遅すぎたり温度が高すぎたりすれば、意匠としてではなく釉の乱れとして錆色の膨らみが生じてしまう。
歴史的に最も知られる油滴天目は、宋代に栄えた福建の建窯や、さらに北方の吉州窯に由来し、いずれも当時の禅寺への輸入品として日本で珍重された。日本の陶工たちは同じ禅の交流路を通じてこの技法を吸収し、以後何世紀にもわたり国内の窯で研究を続けてきた。現代の作り手は電気窯やガス窯を用い、再現性を高めながらも、なお偶然の余地を大きく残す技法に向き合っている。
コレクターにとっての魅力は、この「制御」と「偶然」のあいだの緊張にある——狙った効果を目指した釉の配合と焼成計画が、二度と同じにはならない釉面へと着地する。艶やかに溜まった見込みと、均一に艶消しで広がる胴の対比も、光の当たり方によって表情を変える。本作もまた、特定の歴史的な窯の再現を主張するものではなく、この技法の系譜を今に受け継ぐ一碗である。

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