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Tea Bowl, With black glaze, known as "Suehiro"
Studio of Chojiro, Raku ware, Kuroraku typeAzuchi-Momoyama - Edo period, 16th - 17th century
Tokyo National Museum
Tokyo, Japan
The beginning of Raku ware, of which there are the two types of black and red, lies with the order placed by the tea master SEN no Rikyu from RAKU Chojiro. The black bowls, such as this, gain their color by being cooled rapidly, straight from the hot kiln.
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- Title: Tea Bowl, With black glaze, known as "Suehiro"
- Creator: Studio of Chojiro, Raku ware, Kuroraku type
- Date Created: Azuchi-Momoyama - Edo period, 16th - 17th century
- Physical Dimensions: w99 x h86 mm
- Object Title: 黒楽茶碗 銘 末広
- Object Notes(Japanese): 千利休がいわゆる楽茶碗を焼かせた長次郎(ちょうじろう)焼には長次郎・田中宗慶(そうけい)・宗味(そうみ)・常慶(じょうけい)らが参加していたことが知られている。手捏(てづく)ね・総釉という長次郎焼の基本態を示しながら、胴を膨らませ、高台を大きくとる作風は、宗慶からその子である常慶の作風と言える。
- Object Date: 安土桃山～江戸時代・16～17世紀
- Donor(Japanese): 広田松繁氏寄贈
- Donor: Mr. Hirota Matsushige
- Artist Name: 長次郎
- Type: Ceramic
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