Vintage Japanese Tea Ceremony Ochakoboshi Kensui Drip Glaze Bowl Chinese White and dark blue liner

White and dark blue liner

Vintage Japanese woodblock print by Toshi Yoshida from 1966 titled Mt Holy Cross

Marked "Made in Japan"

This huge antique Japanese saw or nokogiri was hand forged by a Japanese master blade maker over a century ago

Vintage Japanese Tea Ceremony Ochakoboshi Kensui Drip Glaze Bowl Chinese White and dark blue linerThis is a vintage Japanese ceramic bowl known as a ochakoboshi (waster water bowl) used in a Japanese sado chado (tea ceremony). This vessel has a Japanese artist's seal imprinted on the bottom (see picture 8). It is a type of Kyo yaki kiyomizu yaki (made in Kyoto) tea bowl. This bowl has floral imagery, depicting the flower kiku (Chrysanthemum). During the tea ceremony the tea bowl is rinsed once to warm the bowl and another time to rinse it clean.