Chawan / Natural Ash-Glazed / Nara / Tsujimura Yui
Natural Ash-Glaze Rinka Chawan by Tsujimura Yui
Today at the Silver Pavilion a most wonderful Tea Ceremony I attended; Tea is the core of Japanese aesthetics, a chawan is the soul. I was able to hold a 350 year-old chawan--from the temple's collection--as well as a really fine Koie Ryoji; I also was able to gaze within an arm's length of a Chinese celadon chawan used by Ashikaga Yoshimasa. Form accounts for much a chawan's character and few make superb and moving chawan in a rinka-petaled-lobed form as Tsujimura Yui(b.1975). Last weekend I visited Yui, brother Kai and father Shiro and selected some works to be seen in the coming days. In homage of today here is a Yui natural-ash glazed chawan; in perfect condition with a signed box, 7cm.tallx17.3, signed on base, perfect for summer Tea.
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