Important Cultural Property
Height 26.3cm, mouth diameter 10.5cm, bottom diameter 9.6cm
Agency for Cultural Affairs
Traditionally, tea urns were made in the shape of Chinese tea urns. However, even there, Insei used his ingenuity to create a unique form, as if he enlarged a shoulder-jointed tea caddy and added ears to the four sides of the shoulder. Three examples of this type of tea jar are known to exist: one with a Wakamatsu design, one with a Yamadera design, and one with a bird design.
The body of this type of tea jar is slightly narrower than that of a hoshizuki tea caddy, but it has a common shape with a twisted ball-rimmed mouth and a flat bottom.
The bottom also has a flat bottom. The clay texture from the bottom to the bottom is a little coarser than other tea pots, and some of it is burnt like a scarlet tsuki (scarlet tasuki).
As in Figure 5, the ground is glazed black except for the design, and the body is decorated with a mountain in the distance, with wakamatsu (young pine trees), cherry blossoms, and camellias in the background, which are vivid against the black background.
The black background is vividly reflected in the design, which is unique in its auspiciousness. This also came to the Kyogoku family.
