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Hagi Katatsuki Chaire (萩肩衝茶入)
This is a Hagi ware tea container which Tamamura-san has created.
Firing in the climbing kiln.
It seems to be the shoulder kata in Japanese swelled horizontally and we call the shape katatsuki.
He used the clay called daido-tsuchi which is picked in the region of Yamaguchi prefecture.
There is lines on the trunk.
Height : 10.5 cm
Diameter : 7.0 cm
Toyo-san was the maestro to make tea bowl in Hagi ware pottery. His achievements were so great that all sorts of expression touched our hearts.