One of the Song dynasty tea pots. The Chado Sente and Chaji Hiroku (Secret Records of Tea Ceremonies) say, “Seikou is an elegant tea pot from the Lu and Song dynasties, and has the character ‘Seikou’ written on it. In the “Chawanke Meimono Shu” (Tea Utensils and Meimono Shu), the famous Seika piece Shoka is described as follows: “Shoka, there is one in Kanpaku-sama, this jar is yellow with Seika, the clay is black, there are two bumps on the clay, and the bottom is white and red. The fact that it was a three-month old tea masterpiece was also an honor for Seika, and the taste of the tea was so delicious that even the masters were surprised. The tea is said to have been made in a seven-pound tea caddy. The “Wahun Shiori” says, “Tea pots are now called ‘true pots’, and there are true pots of flowery fragrance and lotus flower king. The “Manpo-Zensho” lists hana-seonggang, seonggang-ma-jar, seonggang, and hwang-seonggang, and adds a note on hana-seonggang: “There is a plum tree on the shoulder.
