Hand-painted Camellias Kiyomizu-yaki Yunomi - 120ml

Name: Hand-painted Camellias Kiyomizu-yaki Yunomi - 120ml
Brand: Kuramoto Masao
SKU: US-T143
Price: 148.00 USD
Availability: InStock

Kuramoto Masao

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$148.00

This elegant Kiyomizu-yaki porcelain yunomi (teacup) is decorated with carefully hand-painted pink and white tsubaki (椿 - camellias), with gold accents on the flowers' stamens as well as on the cup's rim and foot.

This cup is a perfect middle size for sencha or other teas. Cups of this size and shape are also called kumidashi (汲出) or senchawan (煎茶碗) to contrast them with the taller, cylindrical style of cup preferred for houjicha and bancha.The pure white of porcelain also allows you to appreciate the colour and clarity of the tea.

This cup 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.