[Tea utensils/Tea ceremony tools] Blue and white auspicious gourd-shaped twisted water jar lid with pine cone by Shoami Takano

●Kaigu refers to a complete set of clothing, weapons, horse equipment, etc.
In addition, the four essential utensils used in the tea ceremony are a water jar, a ladle stand, a water container, and a lid rest, and are used to display on a daisu or long board.
It was brought to Japan by the Rinzai sect monk Nanpo Shomyo when he returned from Song, and the most famous example of this is the "Kara Copper Kaigu" owned by Sen no Rikyu.
At that time, most were made from copper.
Today's ceramic utensils first appeared at the end of the Edo period, but at the time they were still unfamiliar and not widely accepted by the people.
It was only after the Meiji period that they began to be widely distributed, and when the head of each school began to make his or her own "favourite items", the "Ryureishiki" style popularised by the 11th head of the Urasenke school, Gengensai, adopted the principle of using ceramic utensils, so they became indispensable to the early modern tea ceremony.
The "Ryureishiki" is one of the new tea ceremony cultures established by Gengensai in order to modernize the tea ceremony.
This is very different from traditional tea ceremonies, as tea is prepared using a desk and chair, and is known as chair tea ceremony.
It is said that the origins of this tea ceremony date back to the 1st Kyoto Exposition, held in Kyoto in 1871, when Gengensai came up with the idea to allow foreign guests to sit down and drink tea.
The water jar, water pitcher and lid rest can also be used separately.

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Size: Water pitcher (approx. diameter 15.4cm)
Approx. bottom diameter 16.6 x height 17.4 cm
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Ladle stand (approx. diameter 5.2 x diameter 9 x height 16.3cm)
Kensui (approx. diameter 13.9 x height 8.9 cm)
Lid holder (approx. diameter 6.6 x height 6.8cm)
Artist: Shoami Takano (Warakuan)
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[2nd generation]
1930: First generation Shoami founded
Born in Kyoto in 1941
Graduated from Kyoto City University of Arts in 1966
Learned the trade under his teacher, the first Shoami
In 1980, he held a 50th anniversary exhibition together with the first generation.
In 1993, the second generation
Currently in production at Obaku Tosho Shoami Studio in Higashiyama, Japan.
Mainly produces porcelain matcha and sencha tea utensils with blue and white porcelain, auspicious porcelain, colored porcelain, and kouchin porcelain.
Obaku Potter "The studio is in Higashiyama, Kyoto"
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Box: Wooden box