Tea Ware
Snow-Drip Chawan Tea Bowl
備前 雪垂茶碗
A matcha bowl with a thick collar of vitrified ash falling like snowmelt over an iron-dark body.
- Botamochi marks from shell firing — a Momoyama-period technique
- Iron-rich body rounds the astringency of thick koicha
- Suitable for daily use; hardness earns Bizen the name 'the pottery that will not break'
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A chawan is judged in the hand before the eye: the weight when full, the angle at which the tea gathers, the way the foot grips the palm. This bowl was fired standing on shells, leaving three pale botamochi marks on the interior floor — the 'rice-cake' resist patterns prized since the Momoyama period. The exterior carries the heaviest ash load the maker permits before a piece is judged unusable; it stopped one millimetre short.
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