Yanashita Hideki Ido Guinomi 45 ml

Dimensions: 8 x 3.8 cm (width x height)

Stoneware

This rustic Guinomi was hand-built by the versatile ceramicist Yanashita Hideki. Yanashita owns several kilns in which he mainly fires tea ceramics in the Raku, Ido, Shigaraki, Iga, and Shino styles. This Guinomi is stylistically modeled on a Korean Ido Chawan, which was so popular in the 16th and 17th centuries that it began to be copied in Karatsu and Hagi. A well-made Ido bowl looks like a simple rice bowl. The glaze is crackled, sometimes showing a crazing pattern, and the underside is reminiscent of sharkskin (kairagi). Hardly any style represents the simple wabi-sabi as well as Ido bowls, as they exude a simple, natural beauty despite their austerity. Typical of Yanashita is that his Guinomi are made with almost as much care as matcha bowls and therefore look like small miniatures. The Guinomi comes in a signed wooden box (tomobako).