Large Bowl (suribachi)
Okuda Eizan
Description
The youngest artist to be included in this exhibition, Okuda Eizan grew up in a family of Shigaraki potters. From the beginning of his training in ceramics, Okuda focused on creating tea wares for the modern tea ceremony. Not only has he studied, like his predecessors, the techniques and forms of Momoyama wares, but he also apprenticed as a tea ceremony practitioner.
This large bowl is modeled after a type of grinding bowl used in farmhouses in the countryside. In a tea ceremony context, this bowl most likely would have been used as an urn for hand washing placed at the entrance to a tearoom.
(Turning Point exhibition, Spring 2010)
Subject Matter:
This large bowl is modeled after a type of grinding bowl used in farmhouses in the countryside. In a tea ceremony context, this bowl most likely would have been used as an urn for hand washing placed at the entrance to a tearoom.
Physical Description:
Large bowl with wide and asymmetrical rim and natural ash glaze. The bowl appears to be orange on the outside, and multi-colored on the inside.
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