Tea Utensils in August

Chinese landscape painting, Qingjiang Yōju Tu, 清江幽居图, by the Ming dynasty painter Shen Zhou (沈周). 

Kōgō: ‘Hana take ikada,’ 華竹筏, flower bamboo raft, L. 4.1 sun kane-jaku, by Naka-mura Sō-in, 中村宗尹, Middle-village Sect-govern. Choice of Ryō-ryō-sai, 了々斎, Completion-completion-abstain, (1775-1825). IX Iemoto, Omotesenke.

Hana-kago, 花籠, flower-basket, bi-ku, 魚籠, fish-creel, with te-ssen, 鉄線, iron-wire, clematis flower.

Mayu bu-ro, 眉風炉, eyebrow wind-hearth, earthenware. Kata-tsuki, 肩付き, shoulder-thrust, tetsu, 鉄, iron. Te-oke, 手桶, handle-bucket, wood. Hi-shaku, 柄杓, handle-ladle, bamboo, and ao-dake futa-oki, 青竹蓋置, green-bamboo lid-place, placed on bucket handle and lid. Cha-wan, 茶碗, tea-bowl, ceramic.

Cha-wan, 茶碗, tea-bowl, ceramic, ‘immersed-fired’ ceramic with iridescent slip; diam. 5/1-2 sun kane-jaku, by Makoto Ya-be, 誠矢部, Truth Arrow-guild, Boxford Mass.