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Collection Online as of March 16, 2025

Teabowl

1984
(Japanese, b. 1947)
Japan, Shōwa period (1926–89)
stoneware with white glaze
Diameter: 15.3 cm (6 in.); Overall: 7.3 cm (2 7/8 in.)
Gift of T. Dixon Long 2001.72
Location: not on view

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.
  • 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=1984|access-date=16 March 2025|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2001.72