Height 7.9cm, mouth diameter 16.3cm, base diameter 7.0cm
This tea bowl is not called Seto black, but is a typical Oribe black. It is a shoestring-shaped tea bowl with a slightly thicker mouth opening outward, and the mouth area is tightened very strongly. It is not clear when this type of tea bowl was first made, but it is about the tea bowl that Oribe used for his own tea ceremony in Keicho 4. Kamiya Sotan, who was invited to that tea ceremony, said, “The tea bowl is Seto-ware, Hitsumi-houya. It is assumed that the Kutsu-shape was already in use in the early Keicho period. However, it is not clear whether the tea bowls used there were Shino or Oribe black. However, when we consider the development of the style that changed from Setoguro to Oribe-kuro and Kuro-oriobe, we can see that this type of tea bowl was probably made by Keicho. It is certain that this kind of tea bowl was probably fired in the first half of Keicho period.
