I pictured the MINE (no) MOMIJI chawan on my blog a long
while back and thought it a good idea to show the kodai from this chawan. Keep
in mind, this is an old bowl, one of the first true chawan ever made and look
at that foot. Beyond being eminently practical and full of purpose, it has such
casual grace and strength which when upright, creates a dramatic sense of lift
for the bowl. This was created using intuition, experience and dare I say,
creative common sense? The chawan was created not as a copy of other chawan but
rather as the next step forward from the found objects used early on in tea.
There are few chawan like this bowl and the potter who created it made a form
and kodai that honestly is unequalled to this day. Surely it was not just
cosmic serendipity, this chawan was created through determined and practiced
effort and no doubt there were more like it but time has taken its toll and
left us with this wondrous example of a Momoyama chawan.
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