WHAT'S IN A NAME

Quite a long time ago my wife and I were walking about up on Charles St. having come from Boylston and Newberry and a visit to what at the time was the Pucker-Safrai Gallery. On Charles we happened into a small shop and toward the back was a group of shiny, perfect almost magical small bowls and bottles by Miyamura Hideki who had apprenticed under yohen and yuteki specialist Miura Shurei before he left Japan for the US. We ended up buying a number of these small bowls and some other pieces but was struck that these 4" bowls were called teabowls by the proprietor which perhaps he meant for use in sencha as they are a bit on the small side for chanoyu. At any rate, they are perfectly thrown with a wonderful overall form and the glaze surfaces as you can see are just mesmerizing so the conclusion we came to is, what's in a name, simply put they are just wondrous little bowls however you should choose to employ them.   

"Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt."  Lao Tzu