[Tea utensils/tea ceremony tools] Copy of Ninsei's Setsugekka by Hiroaki Kato (water jar with cherry blossom design, ladle stand with moon, water pitcher/lid rest with snow)

●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 "Kangan Kaigu" (Chinese copperware set) 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 table 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 jar (approx. diameter 17.2 x height without lid 16.4 cm (height with lid 18.6 cm)
Ladle stand (approx. diameter 5.2 x diameter 9.5 x height 19.7cm)
Kensui (approx. diameter 14.4 x height 8.3cm)
Lid holder (approx. diameter 5.5 x height 5.5 cm)
Author: Hiroaki Kato
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Born in 1964, he studied under his uncle, the third-generation Toshinori Kato.
1985: Completed the specialized course at the Kyoto Prefectural Pottery Training School
Currently studying under his uncle, Toshinori, the 3rd generation master
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Box: Wooden box