Tea utensils, tea ceremony tools, Natsume, thin tea utensil, large natsume, lacquer, autumn field lacquer, made by Okutsu Isshinsai

Large Natsume Autumn Field Makie

During the Momoyama period, autumn grass maki-e was popularly used for a variety of items.
Rikyu applied this to a natsume (Japanese tea container), with pampas grass, bush clover, wild chrysanthemums and other flowers beautifully painted all over the outside and inside of the container, and large and small circles representing dew, all painted in gold lacquer.
This was made with urushi lacquer.

[Okutsu Isshinsai (real name Junichi)] Maki-e artist based in Osaka
Born in Osaka in 1935, the son of a lacquer artist, Ryukichi Okutsu (a Western-style Nitten artist), he began studying lacquer art in the sixth grade of elementary school.
1970: Won the Higashiosaka Crafts Association Award at the 4th Higashiosaka City Cultural Festival Crafts Section.
1976 (Showa 51) Won the Higashiosaka Crafts Association Chairman's Award at the 10th Higashiosaka City Cultural Festival Crafts Division.
1977 (Showa 52) Received the Osaka Crafts Association Chairman's Award at the 19th Osaka Crafts Exhibition
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