Height: 8.5 cm, Mouth Diameter: 10.5 cm, Foot Diameter: 4.6 cm
Raku Museum
This black tea bowl features the characteristic form of the Nagire style, with a rounded body flaring out from the waist and a flared rim. It is thickly constructed overall, and the black glaze applied to the entire surface is also thick; it melts beautifully into a jet-black hue, creating glaze pools below the waist. The footring attached to the rounded base is small, with the interior of the footring sharply carved out and bearing the Chōnyū seal. Three fine vertical marks remain on the footring’s base. A rounded tea pool has been formed on the interior surface. Based on the box inscription on the lid’s exterior reading “Black Tea Bowl, Raku Chōnyū Seal,” this is believed to be a work created after the artist shaved his head at the age of forty-nine.
