Ki-tenmoku (yellow tenmoku)

Ki-tenmoku (yellow tenmoku)
Ki-tenmoku (yellow tenmoku)
Ki-tenmoku (yellow tenmoku)

A type of tenmoku tea bowl. The clay is black with a slight reddish tinge, and the lower part of the medicine is white and the upper part yellow, but the upper part should have a blackish mottled medicine. There are many yellowish ones in Seto Tenmoku, and Kiitenmoku is next to Haemong. Soyei (Rikyu) said about Tadatenmoku and Kiitenmoku that even Kiitenmoku is better than Tadatenmoku, and Tadatenmoku is inferior to Kiitenmoku, The “Manpo-Zensho” says, “It is a mixture of earth black and white and yellow medicines, but not yellow in general.

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