Height: 6.3 cm, Mouth Diameter: 12.5 cm, Foot Diameter: 5.4 cm
This is a flat tea bowl with a slightly tapered body and a high foot, featuring a moderately deep interior. The foot is small, with a flat, rounded base, and is shaped into a perfect circle. Both the inner and outer surfaces of the foot are left unglazed to reveal the clay, while the thick black glaze applied to the entire bowl features a curtain-like glaze on the inside. The glaze is well-fused and glossy; on the exterior, there are several streaks of glaze run-off, and on the interior, a snake-and-scorpion glaze pattern encircles the bowl—a rare feature in Raku ware. An “Inkyo” seal is stamped inside the foot, and on the underside of the box lid, Seisai has inscribed: “Made by Kōnyū: Black Flat Tea Bowl. The sound of the waterfall—a summer mountain one cannot help but hear. Left (signature).”
