Specialty. Korean tea bowl, blue well. Formerly known as Takeya Ido. The inscription is from the ninth line of the Analects of Confucius, “The child desires to stay in the nine barbarians. A certain person says, “You must not do anything that is exposed to the sun. The inscription is based on the following legend: “If the sovereign son of the land is in the land of the nine barbarians, what will he do with the things he has exposed himself to? The well was owned by Takeya Chubei, a tool merchant in Kyoto, so it was named Takeya Well. According to “Chakai Manroku,” it is said to have been called one of the three best aoido in Tokyo, along with Seo and Kasugano. It had been in the Takeya family’s collection for generations, but was given to Shuzaomoto in Eizo Chubei’s reign, and the family named it “What-eru.
He later worked for the Isono family in Osaka and Toda Rogin before moving to the Kato family in Tokyo in 1904 (Meiji 37). (Taisho Meikikan)
