Height 8.8 cm, mouth diameter 12.3 cm, base diameter 5.0 cm
This type of tea bowl is said to have been preferred by Kanamori Munekazu, who had a close relationship with Omuro-yaki Ninsei, and was often ordered for this reason, and there are relatively many tea bowls of this shape remaining. Moreover, only tea bowls of this type are glazed from the inside to the rim of the mouth, but the outside is only glazed in an interesting manner in part, and many of them are overglazed with designs directly on the tightly fired base, which is also a unique artifice of Ninsei.
The body of the vessel stands up slowly, the rim is tightened, and the mouth rim is held slightly inward, and the low base, despite the shape of the vessel, is cut diagonally into a thin strip on the inside. The interior is covered with a translucent white glaze, and a green glaze runs along a portion of the mouth rim. On one side of the exterior, green glaze is poured from the base to the rim of the mouth as if it were a trickle, but of course this is done with full awareness of the stylistic effect. On the slightly reddish base, a triangular pattern of so-called “scaly waves” is painted in blue and green overglaze over eight tiers, and within each tier, a scaly wave pattern is further finely burned in gold.
This is one of the best tea bowls of this type, and was also handed down in the Mitsui family. On the left side of the inner stand, there is a seal of “Ninsei” which has been called “Sowa seal” since ancient times.
