Height 8.5cm, mouth diameter 12.4cm x 14.5cm, base diameter 5.7cm
Drop Sui Art Museum
This is a typical Kutsukata tea bowl exactly the same as the so-called Oribe black. The mouth is also slightly open to the outside, round and thick. It is a good document that shows that Oribe’s taste, which is clearly different from Rikyu’s taste, was also fired in Chojiro’s kiln. Moreover, in the center of the bowl’s base, there is a seal stamped in the Raku script called the Jokei seal. If this mark was given by Hidetada, it is thought to have been made by Furuta Oribe after he became Hidetada’s tea master during the Keicho period (1596-1598), in accordance with Oribe’s tastes. This tea bowl has a high pedestal and its surroundings made of clay, and the yuzu has been melted well, but it is somewhat hard fired. The glazed surface is not shiny and the color is like iron casting. On the back of the inner box lid, there is an inscription by Yabuuchi Takeo, “Ming Tekkai Yafu Takeo (Hanashii),” and on the front of the inscription, “Jokei Zukuri Kurocha Bowl (10) Kichizaemon 10th Generation Yoshiyuki,” which is written by Danniri.
