Artworks

Tea bowl called Muichimotsu (Holding Nothing)

Artwork · Chōjirō · late 16th century · tea bowl · Egawa Museum of Art

One of the most famous bowls of Chōjirō: red raku, formed by hand rather than thrown, under a transparent glaze — a cylinder rising abruptly from a narrow base to a wide mouth, the epitome of simplicity that Sen no Rikyū preferred. Raku ware is fired at low temperature and taken from the kiln while hot, so chance shapes its glaze. 1 Mason 2005, p. 251, fig. 287. ↩ Literatur Mason 2005: Penelope E. Mason, History of Japanese Art, 2nd, Pearson Education LTD. 2005.