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Fuyu Ginga Chawan Tenmoku (冬銀河茶碗 - 天目 - )
This is the Gingayu glaze tea bowl which Tetsuaki-san has created.
The overall thickness of the bowl is thin, you are supposed to be amazed at how light it lifts.
A pattern which looks like snow crystals has emerged on the whole.
Tenmoku Chawan
People used to hold a Tenmoku tea bowl to drink Japanese tea.
Some imitated those bowls imported from China in a Japanese style.
Its feature is the following
- Low footring
- Unglazed footring, showing the soil
- Funnel-shaped
- Mouth Being tapered in the middle, then warped upwards
Tenmoku is still beautiful and valuable.
Fuyu-Ginga (冬銀河)
Fuyu refers to winter of the four seasons in Japanese.
A pattern that combines the white and the silver color of snow and frost.
Sometimes pure, Sometimes mild.
The design is so pure that it makes you feel different things.
Height : 6.8 cm
Diameter : 12.3 cm
Tetsuaki-san has developed the original glaze named gingayu with star-studded design. One of his artworks was featured on the CHRISTIE'S.