Product Description
Raku Chôjirô
Birth date unknown, died in the 17th year of the Tenshô era (1589).
Reputed to be the son of Chinese or Korean immigrants.
Chôjirô worked under Sen no Rikyû, the master of the Japanese tea ceremony, to make red and black raku-yaki tea bowls, thereby creating the raku genre of Japanese pottery.
Iron tongs markings
Raku-yaki tea bowls, particularly those of the black variety, are glazed in a high temperature kiln. These works bear the marks of iron tongs due to being held on both sides in order to rapidly cool them.
Pottery
Diameter 11.5cm
Height 8.5cm
Also included: Paulownia wooden box, spare cloth, artist's short personal history guide.
Birth date unknown, died in the 17th year of the Tenshô era (1589).
Reputed to be the son of Chinese or Korean immigrants.
Chôjirô worked under Sen no Rikyû, the master of the Japanese tea ceremony, to make red and black raku-yaki tea bowls, thereby creating the raku genre of Japanese pottery.
Iron tongs markings
Raku-yaki tea bowls, particularly those of the black variety, are glazed in a high temperature kiln. These works bear the marks of iron tongs due to being held on both sides in order to rapidly cool them.
Pottery
Diameter 11.5cm
Height 8.5cm
Also included: Paulownia wooden box, spare cloth, artist's short personal history guide.