[Tea utensils/tea ceremony tools] Bucket side (Okegawa) by Hayashi Tanyu (Gozan Kiln)

●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 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.
●Okegawa: This is a type of water jar with an old blue and white porcelain design, with a cylindrical body squeezed into a shallow ring flower shape, vertical stripes in indigo around the knot, and a connected lightning pattern painted around the opening.
It is said that this name comes from the fact that the vertical lines on the body resemble the side of a barrel.
It is also called shisen, which is the name given to the paper used for writing Chinese poetry, due to the resemblance of the lines drawn on it.

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Size: Water jar (approx. diameter 17cm x height excluding lid 17.2cm)
Ladle stand (approx. diameter 5.5 x diameter 7.5 x height 18cm)
Kensui (approx. diameter 14.6 x height 9.2cm)
Lid holder (approx. diameter 6.2 x height 5.7cm)
Author: Tanyu Hayashi (Gozangama)
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Gozan Kiln
Born in Kyoto in 1945
In 1968, he graduated from the Department of Oriental History at Ryukoku University and entered the pottery world.
He trained under his uncle, the second-generation master, Hayashi Maruyama.
In 1971, he opened his own pottery shop under the name Tanyu.
In 1973, the kiln was given the name "Gozan Kiln" by Master Takeda Masuyoshi, the head priest of Kenninji Temple.
In 1977, he studied under Master Daiki Tachibana at Nyoian Temple in Daitokuji Temple.
1984: Dedicated to the 850th anniversary of Kawasaki Daishi's birth (Heikenji Temple)
Selected for the Tanko Biennale Contemporary Tea Ceremony Exhibition in 1991
In 2006, he was selected for the Tanko Biennale Tea Ceremony Art Exhibition sponsored by Tankosha Publishing.
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Box: Wooden box