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Teabowl

茶碗

late 1900s

Tsujimura Shirō 辻村史朗

(Japanese, b. 1947)
Culture
Japan, Shōwa period (1926–89) to Heisei period (1989–2019)
Medium
stoneware with applied and natural ash glazes
Measurements
Diameter: 15.8 cm (6 1/4 in.); Overall: 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of T. Dixon Long 2000.155
Copyright
Copyright
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Location
Not on view
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Description

Tsujimura Shirō is a self-taught ceramist who works near the city of Nara. He creates tea wares in a wide variety of styles. Carefully designed to be pleasurable to hold in two hands, this bowl is inspired by medieval Korean prototypes known in Japan as koraijawan, literally “Goreyo tea bowls.” Korean tableware imported to Japan in the 1500s became so popular in Japanese tea practice that works were soon made to order. Tsujimura’s bowls preserve the wabicha, or “rustic tea” expression of those bowls.

Teabowl

late 1900s

Tsujimura Shirō

(Japanese, b. 1947)
Japan, Shōwa period (1926–89) to Heisei period (1989–2019)

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