This tea bowl was crafted about 400 years ago, when the communal drinking of [matcha] green tea reached its peak of popularity. It represents a unique style of Japanese pottery called Shino. The surface is painted with wild grasses in iron pigment under a white glaze, creating the illusion of a misty field.
- Cultural property designation
- Quantity
- Artist
- Mino ware, Shino style
- Period/Century
- Azuchi-Momoyama–Edo period, 16th–17th century
- Country/Origin
- Excavation site
- Material
- Stoneware with underglaze brown
- Size
- Inscriptions
- Donor
- Collection reference no.
- G-5749
- Genre
- Ceramics
- Category
- Applied arts > Performing arts > Tea ceremony implements