[Tea utensils/tea ceremony tools Matcha tea bowl] Copy of Aoido, inscribed "Houso", inscribed by master Jimyousai, made by the 4th generation Shinshimizu Zoro, with Kairagi (plum blossom skin)

●What is an Aoido tea bowl? It is a type of Goryeo tea bowl, the most highly prized of all Goryeo tea bowls, and is classified into various types such as Oido, Koido (Koido), Aoido, and Ido-waki.
These tea bowls, which had been made in Korea since the early Joseon Dynasty in the 16th century as daily utensils, were brought over to Japan towards the end of the Muromachi period, and were discovered and used as matcha bowls, as recorded in the "Yamagami Sojiki" by Yamagami Soji, a senior disciple of Sen no Rikyu, who wrote, "The Ido tea bowl is the finest Korean tea bowl in the world. Yamagami Soji discovered it and gave it to the Chancellor, who possessed twenty of them."
●Kairagi is a fish skin with hard granular protrusions. It is said to be the skin of a butterfly shark, but the glaze is wrinkled like the skin on the back of a fish similar to a stingray.

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Size: Approx. 15.5 x 14.2 x 8 cm
Artist: 4th generation Makiyomizu Zoro
Box inscription by Miyosai
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[4th Generation Kuroku] (1933-)
Born in 1943 as the eldest son of the third generation
After graduating from the Kansai Art Academy in 1956, he studied under his father and began making pottery. He worked on a wide range of pottery including celadon, Mishima, Kohiki and Hakeme.
In 1971, he took on the name of the 4th generation Kuroku
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Box: Wooden box