ASAHIYAKI Mug Black Glaze 270ml
ASAHIYAKI Mug Black Glaze 270ml, crafted by 16th generation pottery maker Matsubayashi Hosai.
A black glaze mug fired in the climbing kiln "Genyo". The black color of this mug has the disadvantage that the color of the tea is hard to see. However, it has the advantage that you can concentrate on the aroma of the tea without being confused by the color of the tea. This mug is suitable for such aromatic teas "Hojicha, Bancha, Oolong tea, Black tea, etc".
ASAHIYAKI, founded over 400 years ago in the Uji region of Kyoto Prefecture in Japan and now operated by 16th generation pottery maker Matsubayashi Hosai.
Its earliest working-kiln was constructed about four hundred years ago, on the cusp of the shift from the Momoyama (c. 1585-1605) to the Edo Period (c. 1605-1867), by the first-generation kiln-master, Tosaku I. During this era, the supremely-influential Tea-master Sen-no-Rikyu (1522-91) brought to perfection the tea ceremony, and his later successor, Kobori Enshu (1579-1647), began to make his first youthful but noted appearances in Tea-circles. He established an enduring relation with the increasingly-productive Tea-growers of the Uji area, and contributed significantly to establishing the Uji tea as the nation’s first choice for green tea. It was Enshu who officially bestowed on Tosaku I the kiln-soubriquet ‘Asahi’. And this is why Asahiyaki has traditionally been numbered among the ‘seven Enshu kilns’ [Enshu nanagama].
The Asahiyaki kiln still carefully maintains its dual tradition of creating both ware for the Rite of Tea, as first undertaken by Tosaku I, and also utensils with which to savor infusions from fine green leaf-tea (sencha).
Master ceramist Matsubayashi Hosai's work is, in addition to the traditional Asahiyaki Kase(fawn back) and Red Kase(red fawn back), also producing in the style of the 16th generation with a modern atmosphere, Geppaku overglazed works.
- ASAHIYAKI Mug Black Glaze 270ml
- Glaze black color
- Size diameter: 80x89mm (excluding handle)
- Made from local clay (aged 100+ years)
- Genyo firing kiln used
- Handmade in Uji, Kyoto, Japan
