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Daisuke Hashimoto
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Houhin | 1550
About Tenmoku Houhin - Daisuke Hashimoto - 150ml
A small handleless teapot glazed in Hashimoto Daisuke's seikō, "blue glitter," his own variation on the oil-spot tenmoku. In the kiln the ash in the glaze pulls away from the iron and gathers into cells, so the whole pot is covered in a web of silver-blue over a ground that is nearly black. The pattern is denser on the lid and loosens down the body, and it shifts with the light: steel grey at rest, blue when the sun catches it. The rim and the knob fire to a warm bronze where the glaze runs thin. No two pots repeat.
The form is a houhin: a bowl with a pinched spout, a flush lid with a single steam hole, and no handle. The lid is held slightly ajar and the tea poured through the gap, which suits fine leaf that wants room to open. Made for gyokuro, shincha and good sencha, brewed cool and in small amounts, and small enough to hold in one hand while you pour.
About the maker. Hashimoto Daisuke (橋本大輔) was born in 1973 and works from his own kiln in Shiga Prefecture, just over the hills from Kyoto. He has spent his career on tenmoku, the iron glazes that came to Japan from China with the tea culture of the medieval monasteries, and is regarded as one of the youngest specialists in the field. He is a full member of the Japan Kōgei Association, and his oil-spot tenmoku has been selected repeatedly for the Japan Traditional Crafts Exhibition, the country's principal juried craft show, most recently the 71st exhibition. Seikō is his signature glaze.
Details
Origin: Shiga Prefecture, Japan
Maker: Hashimoto Daisuke (橋本大輔)
Form: Houhin (handleless, lid-filtered teapot)
Glaze: Seikō (青煌) blue oil-spot tenmoku
Material: Stoneware
Capacity: 150 ml
