Striped Tokusa Houhin - 180ml

Name: Striped Tokusa Houhin - 180ml
Brand: Kuramoto Masao
SKU: US-H18
Price: 124.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Kuramoto Masao

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$124.00

This Kiyomizu-yaki porcelain houhin (handleless teapot) has a deep shape and is decorated in a style called sai-tokusa (彩十草), a colourful variation on the classic tokusa design of vertical lines inspired by horsetail grass. Each stripe is hand painted in blue, green, and orange. Additionally, the rim of the pot and the lid knob have been gilded. To aid in filtering and pouring, there are grooves at the spout along with holes in the lid.

This houhin was made by Kuramoto Masao (倉元真佐夫) of Kōhō Kiln (光抱窯)

There are many styles of chawan produced in the Kyōto area and few are as synonymous with the term Kyō-yaki (京焼 - Kyōto wares) as the colourful overglaze painted styles. While there is no agreed upon term for the general Kyōto style, the term iro-e ( 色絵 - colourful paintings) refers to the technique of overglaze painting. Unlike the painted styles detailed above which used iron pigments applied underneath a transparent glaze, overglaze decoration uses enamels applied on top of the glaze. This allows for much more colourful and detailed designs and images. The development of this style can be traced to three individual potters. Nonomura Ninsei (野々村仁清) and his student Ogata Kenzan (尾形乾山) pioneered the style in the early-mid Edo period. Later in the 1700s, Okuda Eisen (奥田頴川) introduced porcelain technology to Kyōto which made overglaze painting easier.