Great Name. Chinese tea bowl, ashikatenmoku. Originally owned by Tsuneyu Aburaya of Sakai and later passed down to the Owari family. The inside has a blue pattern like flying clouds, and there is a silver sanding pattern in the beautiful luster of nashihide color. The exterior is austere in color for the first five minutes around the mouth, and from there to the edge of the clay is the same nashi-bark color with beautiful silver sand, and the glaze pool at the edge of the clay is thick, with an exceptionally fine blackish-gray pattern in it, as if ink had been poured. The base is made of iron-air clay, with a serpentine shape at its rim, making it a very fine piece of tenmoku without any decoration. Currently in the collection of the Tokugawa Reimeikai. (Gan-kan meibutsu-ki, Kokin meibutsu ryu-ju, Taisho meiki-kan)
