Height 9.2 cm, mouth diameter 9.9 cm, base diameter 6.5 cm
Tokugawa Art Museum
Although now used as a tea bowl, it was probably originally made as a mukozuke. Therefore, its shape is also different from typical tea bowls, as it has a low and wide base. However, even if it is used as a tea bowl, it would be quite tasteful and enjoyable. Two bamboo shoots, one large and one small, are painted on the cylindrical body of the bowl, which is wheel-thrown, and the white glaze over the entire body is well melted. The white glaze over the entire surface is well melted. Moreover, the red charring has been beautifully produced, enhancing the flavor. Toyozo Arakawa was attracted by the beauty of this tea bowl when he first saw it in 1930, and thinking that it might be from a Mino kiln, he walked around the mountains of Mino and collected fragments of the same painting as this mukozuke at the Muta-do old kiln site in Ohgaya. This piece is deeply related to Arakawa’s work, and is also an important piece in the process of discovering that Shino pottery was produced in Mino. On the reverse side of the bamboo shards are drawings of mountains and cypress fences.
