Chōjirō: tea bowl, known as “Yugure”, Red Raku

Chōjirō: tea bowl, known as "Yugure", Red Raku

Height 8.9cm, mouth diameter 10.2cm, base diameter 5.1cm
Goto Museum of Art
 This is a tea bowl with a deep flavor of yuzu landscape, which is rare for Chojiro. The shape is gentle, the mouth is held slightly inward, the body is slightly tightened, the base is rounded with a thin tatami mat, and the inside of the base has a strong roundness. The body is slightly tightened and the base is rounded with a narrow tatami mat, and the inside of the base is rounded. Some flat spatula marks remain on the body. On the back of the lid of the inner box, Soatsu inscribed “Yugure (Hanaseki)”. This is a Chojiro ware that is completely different from “Muichimono” and “Jirobo” in the same Akaraku style, or it may have been a tea bowl favored by Soatsu.

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