Height 8.0cm, mouth diameter 10.9cm, base diameter 5.0cm
This bowl is similar to Chojiro’s bowl, with its mouth further turned inward than the previous one. However, while Chojiro’s bowls are made by hand, this one is clearly wheel thrown. Therefore, it has a more straightforward appearance than Chojiro’s tea bowl. The slightly elevated base is deeply carved, and inside the base, Sotan’s son, Sono Somuro, who succeeded to Kyouan, has written directly in vermilion lacquer. It is known that this tea bowl was handed down to tea masters in the Rikyu lineage, along with the tea bowl with a frontispiece by Rikyu Zaiban. It suggests that from the end of the Muromachi period to the middle of the Tensho period, this type of tea bowl was ordered from Mino in relation to Hokumukai Douchen or Rikyu. Also, from its form, it is clear that it was made to meet the taste of Apesho tea masters.
The glaze is a slightly translucent yellow material, almost the same as that of the yellow tenmoku tea bowls, and is different in taste from the ash material used in Kosedo since the Kamakura period.
