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Teabowl

Teabowl

late 1900s
(Japanese, 1947-)
Japan, Shōwa period (1926-89) to Heisei period (1989-2019)
stoneware with applied and natural ash glazes
Diameter: 15.8 cm (6 1/4 in.); Overall: 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.)
Gift of T. Dixon Long 2000.155
Location: not on view

Description

Tsujimura Shirō is a self-taught ceramicist 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.
  • The Cleveland Museum of Art, "Reeds and Geese: Japanese Art from the Collection of George Gund III" (May 21- September 3 2017)
    Reeds and Geese: Japanese Art from the Collection of George Gund III. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 21-September 3, 2017).
  • {{cite web|title=Teabowl|url=false|author=Tsujimura Shirō|year=late 1900s|access-date=23 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2000.155