Large Tenmoku Bowl “Wind”
Tenmoku tea bowls are dark-glazed stoneware vessels. The name refers to Mount Tianmu Temple in China, where many of them were made during the Song dynasty (960–1279). Brought to Japan by Buddhist monks in the Kamakura period (1185–1333), tenmoku were used at tea gatherings and, beginning in the sixteenth century, were produced in Japan as well. Hisada Shigeyoshi was one of the few contemporary artists to experiment with new types of tenmoku glazes while also re-creating traditional examples This unusually large bowl is covered in black and gray tenmoku glazes made of feldspar, limestone, and iron oxide. The artist submitted the vessel, named “Wind,” to the 25th Tōkai Traditional Art Craft Exhibition, where it won the Grand Prize of the Traditional Japanese Art Craft Association.
Artwork Details
- 久田重義作 鉄釉風文鉢
- Title: Large Tenmoku Bowl “Wind”
- Artist: Hisada Shigeyoshi (Japanese, 1946–2001)
- Period: Heisei period (1989–2019)
- Date: 1994
- Culture: Japan
- Medium: Stoneware with iron (tenmoku) glaze
- Dimensions: H. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm); Diam. 17 1/2 in. (44.5 cm); Diam. of foot 6 in. (15.2 cm)
- Classification: Ceramics
- Credit Line: Gift of Takemitsu Oba, 2017
- Object Number: 2017.688
- Curatorial Department: Asian Art
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