Great Name. Chinese tea bowl, ash-covered tenmoku. The gray sky pattern of this Tenmoku bowl gives it the mood of a late scene, and the name “Yuyoutenmoku” (evening sun) truly expresses the scenery. It was handed down to Shisseibo, the pagoda of Todaiji Temple in Nara, as a Higashiyama Gomotsuki, and then to Tango-no-Mamoru Toki, the feudal lord of Osaka Castle during the Kyoho era (1716-36), and in 1871 (Meiji 4), it was handed down from the Toki family to Churoku Sakai, Marquis of Wakasa. (Gankan Meimono Ki, Kokin Meimono Ruiju, Taisho Meikikan)
