Height 8.4cm, mouth diameter 10.5cm, base diameter 5.0cm
This tea bowl is similar in style to the “Souan”, although the base is a little lower. The mouth is slightly thicker and slightly held inward, the body is tightened, and the waist is rounded and curved. The base is small and the width of the helmet is low within the base, creating a semicircle shaped tea reservoir. The black glaze applied to the entire body reveals the bare surface of the body, probably due to the thinness of the glaze. There are five marks left on the tatami mats of the high stand, and marks inside and outside from when it was pulled out. It is housed in a simple curved inner box, and Sotan wrote “Chojiro Kuro Honkakubou (Hanaseki)” on the back of the lid, and “Chojiro Zukuri Kuro Chawan (black tea bowl), Genpaku inscription, Honkakubou, Ryohitsu Bunzoe (Hanaseki)” on the outer box by Ryokusai. Honkakubou was a person of the Rikyu and Souatsu periods.
