Height 7.9 cm, mouth diameter 13.7 cm, base diameter 6.1 cm
Tokiwanzan Bunko
This is a tea bowl of an unparalleled Shino style. The rim of the mouth is sharply curved at the edge, the ridge of the waist is very tight, and a rather small ring-shaped stand with a wide tatami mat is carved out low, leaving one side of the stand and the edge of the stand covered with thick Shino glaze. The glaze is well melted, but unlike other Shino tea bowls, it shows a light green color as if the ash has melted in some places. The three sides of the mouth rim are covered with iron glaze in the style of lipstick, and a simple pattern in the style of a single character is painted with strong brush strokes on the three sides of the body and the prospective.
On the front of the lid of the inner box, “Shino Hatsune Tea Bowl” is written in gold-painted letters, and it was once in the collection of Lord Matsudaira Fumai. However, in “Unshu Meibutsu Ki”, there are “Asahagi”, “Umegaka”, and an unnamed tea bowl, but the name of “Hatsune” is not seen. However, in “Daen-an Chakai-ki” in Fumai’s Osaka residence, it is written that a tea ceremony was held using this “Hatsune”. It was handed down from the Matsudaira family to a tea master in Nagoya, Morikawa Nyoshunan, and then to the collection of Sugawara Tsuneji, and then to the Tokiwanzan Bunko.
