Height 9.4cm, Bowl 9.9cm, Base 5.1cm, Diameter 5.1cm
Nezu Museum
This is a masterpiece among Shigaraki tea bowls and has been highly valued since ancient times. On the back of the lid of the inner box, Kakusai Haraso, the sixth generation of Omotesenke, wrote on the box, “Mizu-no-ko Shigaraki tea bowl left (hanashii) Daitokuji Dainaka den”, which suggests that it was owned by Dainaka Sokin, the 208th generation of Daitokuji, and that it was handed down from Tsuda Sogyo to his son Etsuki Sogan before that.
It is a small, rounded tea bowl, slightly thickly molded, with a unique and interesting shape, as if it had been hand-set. The reddish-brown clay is covered with ashes, and white feldspar grains of various sizes are scattered in the reddish-brown clay.
It was later handed down to Tanaka Sensai and Fuyuki Kiheiji in Fukagawa, Edo, and became the property of Lord Matsudaira Fumai during the Kansei era (1615-1644), and then to Nezu Aoyama O. It is now in the collection of Nezu Museum.
